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The Jammu & Kashmir High Court dismissed a writ petition by a PEG Scheme godown operator challenging FCI penalty recoveries for delayed black-topping of internal roads, holding the firm estopped by its own undertakings.
Justice M. A. Chowdhary dismissed bail and a revision petition filed by a Kupwara man facing repeated sexual assault charges, holding that a post-charge compromise carries no weight in Section 376 IPC matters.
Justice Sanjay Dhar held that an evasive denial cannot substitute a clear admission under Order XII Rule 6 CPC when the defendant has taken a categorical stand on the disputed fact.
The Division Bench found that an MD graduate's shifting narratives about a University of Kashmir Gold Medal, combined with a nine-year delay in filing, fatally undermined his writ petition.
The High Court held that a Sub-Registrar must either register or refuse a document; seeking clarifications from superior authorities and advising parties to wait is outside the Registration Act, 1908.
A Division Bench of the J&K and Ladakh High Court dismissed a landowner's appeal seeking compensation for land rendered unusable by a 220 KV transmission line, holding that aerial right of way belongs to the State.
The J&K and Ladakh High Court dismissed a former Congress leader's plea to exchange proprietary land for encroached Kahcharaie land, holding that the 2020 amendment to Section 133(2) of the Land Revenue Act removed that power entirely.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upholds notifications directing all affiliated private schools to adopt Board-published textbooks for Classes VI to VIII, dismissing a trust's challenge.
The Srinagar bench found cumulative allegations of humiliation, rejection and indifference sufficient to frame a Section 306 IPC charge, while quashing proceedings against the grandfather for want of specific incriminating material.
Dismissing a school's repeated challenge to a 2022 salary direction, the J&K High Court held interim orders executable under Section 36 CPC and cautioned judges against unverified AI-sourced precedents.
The High Court of J&K and Ladakh dismissed a writ petition seeking Rs 50 lakh compensation after a court-directed demarcation found the ADP road used only Kahcharai and State land, not the petitioners' proprietary land.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court set aside a preventive detention order under the PIT NDPS Act after finding the sponsoring officer's dossier omitted a court-rejected bail cancellation application.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court set aside a trial court order cancelling bail where no misuse of liberty or fresh material had emerged after the original grant.
Justice Sanjay Dhar acquitted the appellant after holding that the school leaving certificate had no probative value and the prosecution could not prove the prosecutrix was under 18 at the time of the occurrence.
Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal held that disputed questions of deviation extent and compoundability cannot be adjudicated under Article 226 when an efficacious statutory remedy exists before the J&K Special Tribunal.
The Srinagar bench found that the Adjudicator/DRE forum was never properly constituted and that the employer's termination decisions fell outside the DRE's contractual remit entirely.
Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal held that revisional jurisdiction under Section 15 of the Land Revenue Act cannot be exercised after an inordinate, unexplained delay of nearly twenty years.
A Division Bench found that experience certificates issued by the same officer who had discharged the professionals were managed to defraud the public exchequer, and reversed the Single Judge's direction to pay remuneration up to 20 March 2020.
A Division Bench at Jammu dismissed the State's acquittal appeal, holding that complete non-compliance with Section 50 of the NDPS Act vitiated the recovery of 680 grams of heroin.
Justice Sanjeev Kumar condoned a 12-day delay and set aside abatement in CSA No. 8/2013, finding that respondents' counsel breached Order 22 Rule 10-A by concealing a party's death.
A Division Bench at Srinagar set aside life sentences under Section 302 RPC, finding the entire prosecution case rested on inadmissible confessional statements unsupported by independent evidence.
A Division Bench at Jammu upheld the acquittal of Balwinder Kumar in a 2002 stabbing death, finding the FIR ante-dated, prosecution witnesses mutually contradictory, and the accused's injuries left unexplained.
Justice Rahul Bharti found the District Magistrate, Kathua had abused preventive detention powers by relying on four unresolved BNSS Section 128 proceedings initiated within seven days.
