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Serial No. 190

SUPPLEMENTARY CAUSE LIST-I

HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT SRINAGAR

(Through Virtual Mode)

WP(C) 3317/2025

CM(8932/2025)

Riyaz Ahmad Wani & Anr. …Petitioner(s)

Through: Mr. Sheikh Manzoor, Advocate.

Vs.

Union Territory of J&K and Others. ...Respondent(s)

Through: Mohsin S. Qadri, Sr. AAG with

Ms. Maha Majeed, Assisting Counsel.

CORAM:

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal, Judge.

ORDER

30.12.2025

01. The petitioners have preferred the instant petition

being aggrieved of the non-consideration of their request for

the grant of the building permission for residential purposes

by the respondent-Pahalgam Development Authority, despite

the fact that the petitioners have obtained all the requisite

NOC(s) from all the concerned departments. Since the

Pahalgam Development Authority has not accorded due

consideration to the application which, as stated by the

learned counsel for the petitioners, has been preferred by the

petitioners in June, 2025 after fulfilling all the requisite

formalities and payment of requisite fee, the instant writ

petition has been preferred by the petitioners.

02. After arguing for a while, learned counsel appearing

on behalf of the petitioners submits that he would feel

satisfied if the instant writ petition is disposed of at this stage

with a direction to the respondent No. 3-Chief Executive

Officer/Member Secretary, Pahalgam Development Authority

(PDA), Pahalgam, to accord consideration to the application

which has been preferred by the petitioners in June, 2025,

within some reasonable timeframe, to which Mr. Mohsin S.

Qadri, learned Senior Additional Advocate General who has

caused appearance, on the asking of the Court, is not averse.

However, he submits that the application of the petitioners

would be considered in accordance with the rules and as per

law and if there is no other legal impediment.

03. Heard learned counsel for the parties at length and

perused the material on record.

04. With the consent of the learned counsel for the

parties, the present writ petition is taken up for final disposal

at this stage as an innocuous prayer has been made by the

learned counsel for the petitioners.

05. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of with a

direction to the respondent No. 3-Chief Executive Officer/

Member Secretary, Pahalgam Development Authority (PDA),

Pahalgam, to accord due consideration to the application

alleged to have been filed by the petitioners in June, 2025

after fulfilling all the requisite formalities and paying the

requisite fee, within a period of six weeks, from the date of

receipt of copy of this order along with copy of writ petition

and the annexures appended thereto, strictly in conformity

with the rules and as per law, provided there is no other legal

impediment.

06. The order of consideration which is likely to be

passed by the respondent No. 3, be forwarded to the

petitioners by registered post.

07. Writ petition disposed of along with connected

application(s) in the manner as indicated above.

(Wasim Sadiq Nargal)

Judge

SRINAGAR:

30.12.2025

“HAMID”