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March 10, 2026, 04:30 PM - 4 min read
The Court was hearing writ petitions filed by the UT of Jammu & Kashmir challenging orders passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal whereby recoveries were set aside and directions were issued restraining the authorities from altering pay and pension of the employees in matters relating to grant of benefits under SRO-59 and SRO-14.
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March 9, 2026, 04:16 PM - 3 min read
Justice Rahul Bharti passed a series of directions addressing not only the immediate safety of the girl but also broader concerns regarding the exploitation of young women by luring them into marriage traps.In a February 20 order, the Court observed that a moment of vigilance had helped prevent the young girl’s life from going to waste.
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March 7, 2026, 05:36 PM - 3 min read
Justice Rahul Bharti observed that the Court has been coming across such practices in both civil and criminal cases, where annexures attached to a petition are photocopies of the trial court's file, rather than certified copies obtained through the prescribed legal procedure.
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March 6, 2026, 03:52 PM - 2 min read
The accused persons were arrested during the course of the investigation and are presently lodged in judicial custody at Central Jail, Srinagar, the EOW spokesperson said. On 18 February 2026, the EOW arrested five employees of HDFC Bank in connection with an alleged financial fraud at the Shopian branch.
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February 27, 2026, 05:34 PM - 3 min read
Justice Rahul Bharti found that the detention order was passed without any application of mind, rendering it illegal from the start.“This Court has no hesitation in observing that the Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978, viz-a-viz the petitioner has been invoked by non-seriousness of standard with which even a motorist is not subjected to a routine traffic challan," the Court added.
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February 23, 2026, 03:58 PM - 3 min read
Malik, who is the AAP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit president, was detained under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) on September 8 last year for allegedly disturbing public order and was subsequently lodged in the Kathua jail.On September 24, he filed a habeas corpus petition in the high court, challenging his detention and seeking Rs 5 crore as compensation.Malik’s case came up for hearing before Justice Mohammad Yousuf Wani and the court has reserved the matter for pronouncement of orders.
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February 7, 2026, 09:03 PM - 2 min read
Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi passed the order after noting that the trial court had failed to comply with mandatory procedure prescribed in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) while issuing a summons in the case on December 30, 2025.
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January 30, 2026, 07:21 PM - 4 min read
The case arose out of allegations that accused Mohammad Maqbool Rather had crossed over to POK two decades ago, received arms training, contracted marriage there, and later returned to Jammu and Kashmir along with his wife Parveena Akhtar and children without valid documents.
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December 31, 2025, 05:49 PM - 3 min read
The woman had approached the Court through her elder sister in 2023 when she was only 17 years old.Justice Rahul Bharti issued the directions to the Senior Superintendent of Police of Poonch and the Station House Officer (SHO) of Mendhar.
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December 24, 2025, 04:05 PM - 3 min read
The petition sought directions for the immediate transfer of all J&K undertrials lodged in prisons across India back to the Union Territory. In its analysis, the Bench found that the petitioner had failed to identify a single undertrial prisoner or family affected, nor did she produce any transfer order showing prisoners being moved outside J&K without cause.
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December 9, 2025, 06:41 PM - 3 min read
The Court rejected arguments that procedural safeguards were flouted while placing the petitioner, Waseem Ahmed Dar, under preventive detention.The Court found that the detaining authorities had adequately supplied him with the grounds for his detention.
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November 12, 2025, 05:10 PM - 3 min read
The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh recently upheld the preventive detention of a woman accused of having had a love affair with slain Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Musaib Lakhvi.
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