Serial No. 124

Regular List

HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT JAMMU

M/s Shree Sai Stone Crusher

…..Petitioner

Through: Mr. Ajay Abrol, Advocate

Vs

UT of J&K & Ors.

.….Respondents

Through: Ms. Nazia Fazal, Assisting Counsel to

Mrs. Monika Kohli, Sr. AAG

Mr. Vishal Bharti, Dy. AG

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAHUL BHARTI, JUDGE

ORDER

(30.12.2025)

01. The institution of present writ petition came to take

place in the face of an order No. 200-JK PCC of 2023 dated 16.03.2023 passed by the Jammu & Kashmir Pollution Control Committee thereby ordering immediate closure of stone crusher i.e. M/s Balaji Stone Crusher, Gandial, Tehsil & District Kathua being run by its sole proprietor Manoj Kumar who is the

petitioner in the present writ petition.

02. Thus, from 16.03.2023 - the date of issuance of the

impugned order to the institution of the writ petition taking place on 15.10.2025, the petitioner reconciled

itself with the order of closure of the stone crusher pursuant to the impugned order.

03. Accompanying the writ petition is an application CM No. 6717/2025 claiming an interim direction of staying the operation of the impugned order No. 200- JK PCC of 2023 dated 16.03.2023. Though in said applicatio