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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.
The President has appointed Justice Sanjeev Kumar to perform the duties of Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh under Article 223 of the Constitution.
The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh quashed a 2022 preventive detention order where the last FIR relied upon dated to 2015 and the warrant went unexecuted for nearly a year.
The High Court of J&K and Ladakh dismissed J&K Bank's appeals, holding that excluding maternity leave from a two-year probationary period to deny regularisation benefits is unconstitutional gender discrimination.
The High Court of J&K and Ladakh upheld a Kupwara trial court's order appointing two commissioners to inspect disputed land, finding the step procedural and consistent with appellate court directions.
The Jammu & Kashmir High Court refused to quash the FIR but directed an SIT after DNA evidence excluded the accused as the biological father of the minor victim's child.
The Srinagar bench held that once a selected candidate joins a post, the select list stands exhausted, even if her engagement is later cancelled for holding a fraudulent certificate.
