Article 370: Kapil Sibal, Gopal Subramanium to take 10 hours each and petitioners to argue for 60+ hours in total

The Supreme Court is slated to commence hearing the batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which effectively removed the special status granted to the ersthwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir..The matter is being heard nearly four years after the Central government's move to abrogate Article 370. The move also bifurcated the State into two Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh..A Constitution Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant will hear the batch of 20-odd petitions..Based on the written submissions received by the nodal counsel, Advocate-on-Record Prasanna S, the oral arguments of the petitioners are expected to require approximately 60 hours to conclude.A total of 18 counsel will be presenting arguments on behalf of various petitioners. Senior Advocates Kapil Sibal and Gopal Subramanium are anticipated to take 10 hours each to conclude their arguments..Senior Advocates Shekhar Naphade and Zafar Shah are expected to speak for 8 hours each.Senior Advocates Dushyant Dave and Chander Uday Singh are likely to present their arguments within 4 hours each.Additionally, Senior Advocates Dinesh Dwivedi, Prashanto Chandra Sen and Gopal Sankaranarayanan are expected to require approximately 3 hours each for their respective arguments.Furthermore, Senior Advocates Sanjay Parikh and Rajeev Dhavan till take about 2 hours each for their arguments.When we account for the arguments of these counsel, it amounts to approximately 57 hours. The remaining three hours will be allocated to intervention applicants, two of whom are represented by Senior Advocates Menaka Guruswamy and Nitya Ramakrishnan..The other lawyers expected to argue for various intervenors include Senior Advocate PV Surendranath and Advocates Manish Tewari, Irfan Hafiz Lone and Zahoor Ahmad Bhat..Watch live the Supreme Court hearing in the Article 370 case:.[Read time indications]