HC grants govt month’s time to file status report
Changing land use in Pahalgam Master Plan 2005 to 2025…
Srinagar: The J&K High Court on Monday granted one month time to the government to file status report in a 2008 case against Mir Naseem Ahmad, former Chief Town Planner and others for conferring undue benefit upon themselves by mischievously changing land use in the Pahalgam Master Plan 2005 to 2025. The direction followed a […]
RTC employees engaged between 1976 to 1986 entitled to all retirement benefits: HC
Srinagar: In a significant judgment, the J&K High Court on Wednesday held that all the employees of the J&K Road Transport Corporation (RTC) engaged between 1976 to 1986 are entitled to every retirement benefit, including pension and gratuity. A petition was filed by 389 members of the Corporation whom the authorities were depriving of pensionary/retirment […]
High Court to avoid imposing costs on petitioner, warns her to be careful in future
Filing of successive writ petitions for same relief by a student
Srinagar: Dismissing and deprecating a practice resorted to by a female student for filing successive writ petitions for same relief, the J&K High Court today decided to avoid imposing costs on the petitioner and warned her to be careful in such matters in future. A female student from Kashmir had approached the J&K Women’s Development […]
Lapses committed by the investigators, prosecution officers, forensic science experts, trial court: HC
Srinagar: Observing that lapses were committed by the investigators, prosecution officers, the forensic science experts and the trial court in a case where two men were caught with suspected brown sugar packets in North Kashmir district of Bandipore in 2019, the J&K High Court has directed reinvestigation and retesting of the seized substances from the […]
Delhi hoteliers refuse accommodation to Kashmiris around ‘national days’!
Srinagar: Geography and belief has become a matter of annoyance for an ordinary Kashmiri as hoteliers in the national capital refuse them accommodation, particularly during run-up to some big event or a national day — like the Republic Day next week. Mohammad Marouf is undergoing engineering programme at Tennessee State University in USA. Narrating his […]
Illegality committed in investigation does not affect competence and jurisdiction of trail court: HC
Srinagar: Illegality committed in the course of investigation does not affect the competence and jurisdiction of the court for trial, the J&K High Court has said. The court was hearing a petition by Khazir Mohammad Tunda, a former Branch Manager of the Bombay Mercantile Bank, M A Road Srinagar. The accused contended that the Central […]
Fight against corruption in J&K remains high, on OPTICS only
ACB sitting on nearly 200 corruption cases filed against ‘very important’ politicians, officials
Srinagar: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) entrusted for preventing and investigating corruption (in executive) is sitting on nearly 200 cases filed against “very important” persons including the politicians, bureaucrats, and other officials, of Jammu and Kashmir since past two decades. To be specific, from 1998 to 2018, 295 cases were registered in the erstwhile state’s highest […]
Compassionate appointment not maintainable years after employee’s death: J&K HC
Srinagar: Grant of compassionate appointment (in government service) long after the death of an employee on the ground that the legal claimant of the appointment was minor at the relevant time goes against the essence of law, the J&K High Court has said. Hearing a case in which the father of the petitioner died in […]
Tardy disposal of cases at CAT Jammu strains petitioners
Petitioners demand bench in Srinagar as well
Srinagar: A year-and-half after the Government of India divested the courts of Jammu and Kashmir of their powers to adjudicate complaints about recruitment and service-related petitions of its employees, Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), the alternative body seems to have only strained the nerves of the of the aggrieved petitioners. After subsuming the jurisdiction, powers and […]
HC imposes monetary penalty on Commissioner-Secretary Animal Husbandry for non-compliance of court orders
Srinagar: With a view to change the mindset of the bureaucracy on non-compliance of judicial orders, the High Court on Wednesday imposed a monetary penalty on the Commissioner-Secretary of the Animal Husbandry Department. The officer has been burdened with a personal cost of ₹ 5,000 to be deposited with the Registry of J&K High Court […]
