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November 8, 2025, 03:51 PM - 3 min read
IN a significant observation, the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has held that disputes over seniority and retrospective promotions cannot be reopened or re-fixed through contempt proceedings, dismissing two Letters Patent Appeals (LPAs) filed by the employees of the Forest Department.
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November 7, 2025, 08:09 PM - 3 min read
Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has upheld the preventive detention of Shaista Maqbool, accused of being an Overground Worker and admirer of the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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November 3, 2025, 04:04 PM - 2 min read
She asserted that the issue of detainees was not political but deeply humanitarian, saying that the young men imprisoned from Jammu and Kashmir were not mere numbers, as they have been treated by the Union government, but sons of the soil who deserve dignity, justice, and a chance to rebuild their lives.
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October 19, 2025, 04:09 PM - 3 min read
The Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, in a recent judgement has quashed the detention of Mohd Waqar alias Waqar H Bhatti of Rajouri, who had been held under the Public Safety Act (PSA), calling the order “arbitrary” and passed “without application of mind.”
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October 13, 2025, 01:35 PM - 2 min read
The Bench, comprising Chief Justice Rajnesh Oswal and Justice Shahzad Azeem, after hearing arguments from both sides, ruled that it cannot provide any interim relief to the petitioners and listed the case for hearing on December 4.
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October 11, 2025, 02:34 PM - 3 min read
The decision was made after the court’s previous ruling, where it had agreed to consider setting up a three-judge bench to examine the legality of what the petitioners alleged was a “sweeping and unreasoned forfeiture” of the books.
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September 24, 2025, 08:54 PM - 2 min read
Jammu and Kashmir Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) president and MLA Mehraj Malik on Wednesday filed a habeas corpus petition in the high court here, challenging his detention under Public Safety Act (PSA) early this month, and has claimed Rs five crore compensation.
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September 13, 2025, 03:41 PM - 3 min read
The High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh has set aside the Public Safety Act (PSA) detention of a man from Anantnag, observing that he had been held under “mistaken identity", after he spent over one year as jail term.
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September 13, 2025, 03:21 PM - 3 min read
J&K High Court has directed the government to file ATR (Action Taken report) on the recommendations that were given to prevent devastating floods like 2014 in the Union Territory. The Court pulled up and directed for appearance of Divisional Commissioner Kashmir with regard to steps taken to prevent the natural calamity. Court has also expressed serious concern over what it observed as 'lackadaisical approach' of the government and concerned authorities in such a sensitive matter.
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September 8, 2025, 03:14 PM - 2 min read
The court also ordered the government to “take urgent steps and file a comprehensive action taken report (ATR)” by September 9.
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August 20, 2025, 04:53 PM - 3 min read
The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has dismissed a petition seeking quashing of an FIR registered under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 against a man accused of pronouncing instant triple talaq upon his wife via text message.
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August 12, 2025, 03:44 PM - 2 min read
As the bypolls to two Assembly seats of J&K remains pending, the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh recently issued notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Central government and the Union Territory (UT) administration on a plea seeking immediate by-elections in the constituencies of Nagrota and Budgam .
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