Jammu & Kashmir High Court Comes To Aid Of Below Poverty Line Woman "Duped" Of Employment By Govt Officials To Oblige Sarpanch

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently observed that the perversity of an action or decision by a public authority/official, acting in the domain of public administration, irrespective of the tier of the administration, has no hiding from the pendular gaze of the Rule of Law which may for a given case get late but not defaults in catching up with the wrong deed and...

When Company Is An Offender, No Vicarious Liability Can Be Attached To Its Officers Unless Statute Specifically Provides So: Jammu & Kashmir High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently quashed a criminal complaint filed under Essential Commodities Act, 1955 against the directors of a company on the ground that the complaint nowhere spells out as to how and in what manner the petitioners/accused were incharge of or were responsible to the accused company.Justice Rajesh Sekhri agreed that when companies are changed with...

Jammu & Kashmir And Ladakh High Court Weekly Roundup: March 6 - March 12, 2023

Nominal Index:Union Of India Vs Assistant Labour Commissioner & Ors 2023 LiveLaw (JKL) 43Jammu Development Authority Vs Jag Mohan Wazir & Anr 2023 LiveLaw (JKL) 44Syed Shahid Hamdani Vs UT of J&K 2023 (JKL) 45Bashir Ahmad Dar Vs Shameema & Ors 2023 LiveLaw (JKL) 46Arif Ahmad Khan Vs UT of J&K 2023 LiveLaw (JKL) 47J&K Service Selection Board Vs Vinkal Sharma 2023...

When Issuing Authority Verifies Experience Certificate, Counter-Signing Authority's Denial Won't Lead To Termination Sans Enquiry: Jammu & Kashmir HC

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently ruled that mere denial of counter signature on a certificate in absence of proper enquiry or finding does not warrant major punishment of termination of service, which becomes punitive in nature particularly when the order of termination is not simpliciter but the stigma is attached to the same.The observations were made by Justice Wasim...

Jammu & Kashmir And Ladakh High Court Accepts Unconditional Apology From Sr AAG, DM Anantnag

Observing that the apology tendered by Senior Additional Advocate General Abdul Rashid Malik and District Magistrate Anantnag is accompanied with a sense of genuine remorse and repentance and is not a calculated strategy to avoid punishment, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Friday accepted their unconditional apology.Accepting the apology, a bench of Justice Wasim Sadiq...