Court : Jammu and Kashmir
Decided on : Sep-10-2007
Reported in : 2007(3)JKJ202
Y.P. Nargotra, J.1. Through this petition the petitioner, who is a Lt. Colonel in the Army, is questioning the legality of his trial by General Court Martial being held at 39 EME Battalion (Transport), C/O 56 APO, and seeks the quashment of the order of convening of General Court Martial against him.2. The petitioner was posted as Assistant Director, Supplies & Transport, HQ 21, Sub Area and served there during the period commencing from 4.3.1998 to 25.11.2000. By virtue of his appointment as ADST he was the Contract Operating Officer of HQ 21 Sub Area in relation to the hiring of civil hired transport. While he was serving at ASC Centre (North), Gaya (Bihar) in 2000 after having been transferred, he was attached with 39 EME Bn. C/o 56 APO in January 2003. The Commanding Officer HQ 39 EME Bn. (TPT) vide his Letter No. 21201/PSK/PC/V-1 dated 2.6.2004 conveyed to the petitioner that the competent authority, i.e., the Commander 21 Sub Area had decided to try the petitioner by General Cour...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Jammu and Kashmir
Decided on : Oct-08-2007
Reported in : 2008(1)JKJ161
Bashir A. Kirmani, J.1. On 02.05.2006, this Court initiated suomoto proceedings in the matter in following terms:1. For a couple of preceding days, painful reports regarding inducement, and blackmail of teen-aged girls to lure and coerce them into immoral physical submission have appeared in press. What makes the reports alarming are allegations that some persons highly placed in different spheres are directly involved therein. Ex-facie the occurrences reported are so horrifying that even a fraction only thereof would be a complete horror in itself. 2. Pushing innocent minor girls in flesh trade is an extremely treacherous act and if constitutionally acknowledged social and moral commitments mean anything, the traders of this treachery have to be brought to account, irrespective of their placement and position, for which this Court perhaps cannot avoid indulgence, particularly while cases registered in the matter weeks back are reportedly lying without any headway in the investigation....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Jammu and Kashmir
Decided on : Oct-30-2007
Reported in : 2008(2)JKJ94
J.P. Singh, J.1. People's Welfare Society Jammu and Kashmir - the petitioner, had approached this Court with a writ petition 'seeking initiation of - effective measures to save the Jammu and Kashmir State Co-operative Consumers Federation, a Co-operative Society,(CONFED, for short), from being wound up and dispossessed from land measuring 9 kanals and 5 marlas and a building existing thereon, situated in Estate Narsingh Garh Magarmal Bagh, opposite Exhibition Ground, Srinagar, Kashmir, besides ensuring revival of the Society as recommended vide Registrar Co-operative Societies, J&K;, Srinagar's letter No. SS/366-67 dated 26.9.2000 by the State Government.2. It had further sought consideration as to whether or not, expansion of College of Education was at all necessary, and could compensation of Rs. 64 lacs and land at Magarmal Bagh and Bemina be given to Mrs. Vijay Dhar in exchange of her land which had been acquired for expansion of the College.3. This petition was treated as PIL on t...
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