On Saturday, retired military officers and bureaucrats submitted a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the presidential order that repealed Article 370 stating that the order was constitutionally invalid. The petitioners also questioned the Reorganization Bill for Jammu & Kashmir.

The petitioners include former Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak, retired General Ashok Mehta, former IAS officers Hindal Haidar Tyabji, Amitabha Pande and Gopal Pillai, and former member of the Interlocutors Group for J&K Radha Kumar at the Home Ministry. The petition was taken by lawyers Arjun Krishnan, Kaustubh Singh and Rajalakshmi Singh and was settled by senior lawyer Prashanto Sen.