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No Time? Supreme Court Prioritising Ayodhya Over Kashmir Has Upset Twitter

Ayodhya became the top trend on Twitter on Monday afternoon, with many criticizing the top court for prioritising the Ayodhya hearing over the Kashmir petitions.
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On Monday, the Supreme Court said it was setting aside all petitions regarding the Kashmir issue for a day, because it had no time in between the daily hearings of the Ayodhya case.

โ€œWe do not have the time to hear so many matters. We have the Constitution bench case to hear,โ€ NDTV quoted the Supreme Court bench as saying.

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It is now close to two months since the government cancelled the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and issued unprecedented restrictions on Kashmiris, including snapping internet and mobile connectivity.

The NDTV report said that the Kashmir petitions will be heard by a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice NV Ramana from Tuesday. These include pleas filed against the alleged illegal detention of children and curbs imposed on the media in Kashmir.

Stories coming out of Kashmir indicate the region is far from โ€˜normalโ€™, as the Indian government has been trying to establish. HuffPost Indiaโ€™s Betwa Sharma reported on Friday that many people in Kashmir are being arm-twisted by the local administration into keeping their shops open, even as heavily armed security personnel man the streets.

Twitter users lamented the fact that Indiaโ€™s top court was prioritising hearing a religious dispute that began decades ago over urgent petitions related to the life and liberty of Indians in Kashmir.

The Supreme Court has said it wants to wrap up hearings on the Ayodhya dispute by October 18.

โ€œThere will not be any extra day after October 18. It will be miraculous, if we deliver the judgement in four weeks in the matter,โ€ said Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, PTI reported.

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