The apex court in its verdict held that the challenge to the proclamation of the presidential rule was not valid and that Article 370 was a temporary provision among others.
In 2018, Justice Nazeer had contested the observation made by the Supreme Court in the Ismail Faruqui case) that mosque is not essential part of Islam.
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju has written to Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, recommending that government representatives be included in the 25-year-old Supreme Court-created two-tiered collegiums to enhance openness.
Supreme Court directed the Registry to issue a show cause notice for initiating criminal contempt proceedings against a petitioner who called a Supreme Court judge a ‘terrorist’.