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August 21, 2026, 04:32 PM - 3 min read
This was disclosed in a social media post by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The move, he said, is aimed at improving access to justice in the remote Union Territory.He added that the government is fully committed to the all-round development of Ladakh and to ensuring constitutional safeguards.
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August 3, 2026, 06:35 PM - 3 min read
A Division Bench of Justice Rajnesh Oswal and Justice Sanjay Parihar said the allegations of accepting money on the promise of securing public employment strike at the very root of judicial probity and erode public faith in the justice delivery system.
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July 11, 2026, 07:40 PM - 3 min read
Justice Rajnesh Oswal made the observation while dealing with a petition filed by several doctors engaged in government medical colleges, challenging a communication that stopped payment of their salaries during maternity leave.
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July 11, 2026, 05:16 PM - 3 min read
A Division Bench of Justice Rajnesh Oswal and Justice Sanjay Parihar observed that the contents of the recovered posters and other material raise a prima facie presumption that the accused were part of a larger conspiracy involving a Pakistan-based handler and members of the banned terrorist outfit TRF.
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June 16, 2026, 06:29 PM - 3 min read
Justice Shahzad Azeem passed the order on a plea filed by the Displaced Kashmiri Residents Housing Cooperative Society. In its plea, the Society has sought directions to the government to implement and operationalise the rehabilitation framework envisaged in the 137th report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs dated February 2009
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June 1, 2026, 04:30 PM - 2 min read
A notification to this effect was issued by the Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice on June 1, 2026. The development comes after incumbent Jammu and Kashmir High Court Chief Justice Arun Palli was elevated as a Supreme Court judge.
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May 30, 2026, 03:26 PM - 3 min read
Justice Rahul Bharti described it as “one very striking aspect of the case, from which this Court is not able to distance itself from taking serious cognisance", referring to the chronology reflected in the prosecution record.
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May 20, 2026, 05:20 PM - 2 min read
As per the order, the High Court will encourage virtual hearings and virtual appearances by advocates and litigants with effect from May 21, 2026. The court has directed that proceedings through virtual mode must strictly follow the decorum and protocols already prescribed for online hearings.
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April 22, 2026, 04:14 PM - 3 min read
The Leh violence was triggered by demands of statehood for Ladakh last year. Nurboo and Namgail were arrested subsequently for their alleged role in the riots.In an order pronounced on April 16, Justice Mohd Yousuf Wani said that “bail is a rule and its denial an exception” in cases not involving offences punishable with death or life imprisonment.
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April 20, 2026, 04:04 PM - 2 min read
The list comprises 10 lawyers and 1 judicial officer.The lawyers recommended included an Assistant Solicitor General, a Deputy Solicitor General and a former Additional Advocate General.This list also includes a woman lawyer, Tabasum Zafar. If approved, it would mark the first instance of a Kashmiri woman being elevated to the High Court Bench.
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April 1, 2026, 04:43 PM - 3 min read
The accused men were earlier granted interim bail in the sensitive case. They had appeared today before the trial court in compliance with earlier directives. Judge Jyoti Bhagat was slated to consider whether their interim bail should be made absolute when the assault took place.
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March 28, 2026, 05:04 PM - 3 min read
The Court ruled that there was “worth nothing” in the entire dossier to justify the concern of the police to file a case seeking preventive detention of the teenager. It added that there was no basis for the District Magistrate, Anantnag to pass the detention order.
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