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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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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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