A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana asked the committee to place its report as expeditiously as possible and posted the hearing for December 3.

'What explains 9 lakh troops in Kashmir if everything's normal?' Mufti said.

More than a thousand people, including politicians, separatists, activists and lawyers, were detained after the August 5 move of the central government to abrogate the state's special status.

Human rights campaigners say the errors in the National Register of Citizens have caused trauma of epic proportions. Is the Citizenship Amendment Bill the solution?