J&K&L High Court Gives Two FCI Employees Last Chance To Save Jobs After Failing Mandatory Hindi Typing Test

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh at Jammu has granted one last opportunity to two Food Corporation of India employees, who were discharged from service for failing a mandatory Hindi typing test during their probation period, to appear in the test afresh.The Court held that the employees had been “hard done by” as they were given only a couple of days to prepare for the test, and directed that they be given at least one month's time to prepare for the fresh test. The Court further...

Death Of Ex Parte Respondent Does Not Justify Recalling Judgment When Appeal Remains Available: J&K&L High Court

The death of a respondent who had been proceeded against ex parte does not, by itself, render a judgment a nullity or entitle the unsuccessful petitioner to have it recalled, particularly when the petitioner could have brought the deceased respondent's legal heirs on record and challenged the judgment through an appeal, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held.Dismissing an application filed by the J&K Dharmarth Trust seeking recall of a judgment upholding an Industrial Tribunal...

J&K&L High Court Quashes FIR Over Railway Contract Dispute; Says Signing Agreement In Own Capacity Without Claiming Authority Is Not Forgery

“When a person executes a document in his own capacity and does not claim that he is authorized by someone else, it cannot be stated that he has made a false document,” the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held, quashing criminal proceedings against three persons accused of cheating, impersonation, forgery and criminal conspiracy in a dispute arising out of a railway tunnel construction sub-contract.The Court held that an agreement executed by Mohd. Ashraf Beigh on October 16, 2021,...

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court Weekly Roundup November 2 - November 8, 2026

Nominal Index:Kamal Saini v. Pritam Singh Saini 2026 LiveLaw (JKL) 498Nisar Ahmad Rather v. Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir 2026 LiveLaw (JKL) 499M/s Mass N Energy and Others v. Union of India and Others 2026 LiveLaw (JKL) 500Ajaz Ahmad Seh v. Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Another 2026 LiveLaw (JKL) 501Sanjeev Sharma and Others v. Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir 2026...

'Seven Years, Three Witnesses & Incomplete Testimony': J&K&L High Court Reopens Acquittal Case For Retrial

Taking serious note of a criminal trial in which the prosecution examined only three witnesses over a period of seven-and-a-half years, including an injured victim whose testimony remained incomplete, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has invoked its inherent jurisdiction to reopen the case and remand it for a fresh trial in accordance with law.The Court held that although the...

Arms Licence Scam: J&K&L High Court Declines Plea By IAS Officers Seeking DoPT To Consider Their Representations Before Deciding Sanction

In the Arms Licence Scam matter, two IAS officers had approached the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court seeking intervention/impleadment in a PIL concerning the arms licence scam, and seeking directions to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), Government of India, to consider their representations before deciding on the proposal for grant of prosecution sanction.A Division...

72-Year-Old Landowner's 15-Year Legal Battle: J&K High Court Quashes Orders Setting Aside His Land Mutation Without Examining Limitation

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has quashed orders of the Divisional Commissioner and Financial Commissioner setting aside a land mutation attested in favour of 72-year-old Prem Singh in 2011, after nearly 15 years of litigation.The Court found that the revenue authorities had overturned the mutation without first deciding whether the appeal challenging it was filed within...

J&K&L High Court Denies Bail To Juvenile Tried As Adult In Terror Case; Says Alleged Links With JeM Handler Raise Concerns Of Danger

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that the alleged association of a child in conflict with law with persons connected to a terrorist organisation can be considered while examining whether his release would expose him to moral or psychological danger under Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.Dismissing an appeal filed by a youth...

J&K&L High Court Orders Compensation For Owners Whose Land Was Wrongly Declared As Evacuee Property After 45 Years

After nearly 45 years of waiting for restoration of their land, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has directed the Government to pay compensation at the prevalent market rate to five residents of Rajouri whose ancestral land was wrongly declared as evacuee property and subsequently allotted to a displaced person.Justice M.A. Chowdhary held that the petitioners were entitled...

Advocates' Strike Not An Exceptional Ground To Extend 120-Day Deadline For Filing Written Statement: J&K&L High Court

So far as suspension of work by the advocates is concerned, the same does not form a ground for extending the time for filing written statement and, in any case, the said ground cannot be categorised as an exceptionally hard circumstance that would make it impossible for a defendant to file written statement within the stipulated time, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has...

Relatives' Antecedents Cannot Disqualify: J&K&L High Court On Non-Appointment Of Lambardar Candidate After CID Report Linked Family To Militancy

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that a candidate cannot be denied consideration for appointment as Lambardar merely because of the alleged militant or anti-national antecedents of his relatives, particularly when no illegal activity has been attributed to the candidate himself.The Court set aside an order appointing another person as temporary Lambardar of Village...

J&K&L High Court Denies Default Bail To UAPA Accused; Holds Charge-Sheet Filed Within 180 Days Extinguishes Right To Statutory Bail

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has dismissed a default-bail application filed by a man accused under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, holding that his indefeasible right to statutory bail stood extinguished after the prosecution filed the charge-sheet within the prescribed period of 180 days.The Court observed that even if the period allegedly spent by the accused in...