An Indian paramilitary soldier guards at a busy market in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, August 1, 2023. India’s top court Wednesday began hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the legislation passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 that stripped disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, scrapped its separate constitution and removed inherited protections on land and jobs. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)
