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The High Court sat at both the winter capital of Jammu, and the summer capital of Srinagar. The Maharaja conferred letters patent on the High Court on 10 September 1943. Puisne judge Khan Sahib Aga Syed Hussain [8] was the first Muslim judge of the High Court. He retired as Home and Judicial Minister of Jammu and Kashmir during the Maharaja ...
Bahauddin Farooqi (1927 – 5 July 2014) was a Kashmiri lawyer, jurist and political figure who served as the 12th Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir. [ 1 ] Education and career
In October 2011, the Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission asked the J&K government to reinvestigate the reported mass rape case and compensate the victims. [10] A writ petition filed in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in 2013 alleged that more than 30 women had been raped. The charges had not been proved and there had been no progress in trial.
The trial for the Kathua murder and rape case began in Jammu and Kashmir on 16 April 2018 before the Principal Sessions Court judge, Kathua. [6] The second hearing was scheduled for 28 April 2018. [7] The Supreme Court sought a response from the Jammu and Kashmir government regarding shifting the trial to Chandigarh by 27 April 2018. [70]
In February 2003, he was appointed as Additional Advocate General. In September 2009, he was appointed as Senior Additional Advocate General. On 8 March 2013, he was appointed as a Judge of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court. [1] He was elevated as Chief Justice of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on 13 October 2022.
During his eleven-month tenure as Chief Justice of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, he delivered a landmark judgment wherein he acquitted the accused Subhash Chander Sharma, who was sentenced to death under section 302 RPC and 498A RPC by the Sessions Judge, Jammu. Subhash Chander Sharma was pleading his own case in the High Court.
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court (Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh) 27 September 2024 (145 days) 9 April 2025 (−49 days) 195 days Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh: 8 March 2013 (11 years, 348 days) 24 Since 20 January 2025: Mamidanna Satyaratna Ramachandra Rao: Jharkhand High Court : 30 May 2023 (1 year, 265 days) 25 September 2024 (147 days)
On November 9, 2023, Jammu and kashmir High Court quashed his detention, termed it "an abuse of the preventive law" by detaining authority and court ruled that there was no specific allegation against Dar [83] [86] The court Order was made public on November 18, 2023, thus Sajad languished in detention for about 660 days [87]