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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicJammu and Kashmir High Court

Topic: Jammu and Kashmir High Court

Why J&K HC set aside relief granted in UAPA case to 2 Kashmiris who chanted anti-national slogans

Inciting people for secession from Union of India falls under ambit of 'unlawful activity' in UAPA, it says while overturning relief granted to 2 Bandipora residents.

Sacked CRPF constable who married a Pakistani cites letters from 2 BJP MPs in plea challenging dismissal

In a writ petition filed before the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Munir Ahmed has also cited his excellent performance in the CRPF to prove his credentials.

What SC said as it ruled that HC’s bail to Kashmiri journalist Shah Fahad can’t be treated as precedent

HC of J&K and Ladakh last year granted bail to journalist Peerzada Shah Fahad, holding that probe agency has to justify arrest based on doctrine of ‘clear and present danger’.

Encroachment of temple properties ‘rampant’ in J&K, HC handed over 9 shrines to DMs in 2 months

In some cases, former mahants of shrines allegedly themselves leased out properties to tenants. HC has ordered DCs & DMs to take over the management of temples and their assets.

Prosecution ‘copy paste’ arguments in UAPA cases, ‘psychologically overawe judges’, notes J&K HC

Justice Atul Sreedharan made the remarks while granting bail to Khursheed Ahmad Lone, charged under the Act, questions lack of specific material against UAPA accused in bail hearings.

Police complaint via WhatsApp? HC gives green light, says it’s compliant with FIR filing laws

J&K and Ladakh HC order comes as courts across India continue to raise questions over validity of WhatsApp chats as evidence, with some orders denying their admissibility in litigation.

Kargil Congress Councillor ‘demeaned armed forces’ but didn’t commit sedition, says J&K HC

LAHDC-K Councillor Zakir Hussain was charged with sedition and other offences under IPC in June last year for his comments on the Indian Army.

J&K government to retrieve land transferred under Roshni Act within 6 months

The government also said complete identities of influential persons, and their relatives holding benami for them, who have derived benefit under the Roshni Act will be made public.

99% habeas corpus pleas filed in J&K since Article 370 move are pending, HC Bar tells CJI

In letter to CJI, Bar association says almost 13,000 people from Valley arrested under J&K Criminal Procedure Code and hundreds booked under PSA after 5 August 2019.

Give summer clothes, essentials to PSA detainee Kashmir bar chief: SC to Tihar officials

Mian Qayoom was detained under the Public Safety Act in August last year, ahead of the revocation of Article 370 by the Modi government.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.