The National Conference on Saturday moved the Supreme Court, challenging the presidential order on Article 370 that revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status.

The petition filed by leaders Mohammad AKbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi sought a direction from the court to declare the order as 'unconstitutional, void and inoperative'.

The party also sought to declare the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, as 'unconstitutional'.

In New Delhi, the Union home ministry said there had been 'a few stray protests' in Srinagara and Baramulla in the past few days against the scrapping of special status for Jammu and Kashmir, but 'none of these involved a crowd of more than 20 people'.

The ministry spokesperson dismissed a media report about a protest by about 10,000 people in Kashmir, calling it 'fabricated and incorrect'.

The government abrogated provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir and divided the state into two Union Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.

President Ram Nath Kovind had on Saturday given assent to the legislation on Jammu and Kashmir's bifurcation and the new Union Territories will come into existence on October 31.

With PTI inputs