<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court today set up a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice N V Ramana to hear a batch of pleas related to abrogation of Article 370 provisions that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir.<br />'' <br />'' Quoting an official source, PTI reports that the bench will commence hearing to examine the constitutional validity of the scrapping of the article's provisions and the subsequent presidential orders on it.<br />'' <br />'' While referring to the batch of petitions to the Constitution bench, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi in August had said the larger bench will commence hearing on the issue in the first week of October.<br />'' <br />'' Several petitions have been filed challenging the Centre's decision abrogating the Article 370 provisions and bifurcating the state into Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. The UTs will come into being on October 31.<br />''<br />''Besides the bench for hearing Article 370 matters, the apex court has also constituted a three-judge bench for hearing matters on capital punishment and two other benches, comprising two judges each, to hear tax matters.</span><br />