Serial No. 152

Supplementary List-2

HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT JAMMU

Date of pronouncement: 30.12.2025.

Uploaded on: 02.01.2026

WP(C) No. 3769/2025

CM No. 8581/2025

Mehak Nehru & Anr.

…..Petitioners

Through: Mr. Abid Khan, Advocate

Vs

UT of J&K & Ors.

.….Respondent

Through: Ms. Nazia Fazal, Assisting Counsel to

Mrs. Monika Kohli, Sr. AAG

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

ORDER

(30.12.2025)

01. Two petitioners herein are siblings being children of

Smt. Rainka Devi and late Sh. Ashok Kumar Nehru.

02. The petitioners’ mother-Smt. Rainka Devi is holder of

status as Scheduled Tribe (ST) belonging to “Paddari Tribe” being one of the Scheduled Tribes recognised under the Constitution (Jammu & Kashmir) Scheduled Tribes Order, 1989 amended from time to time. The averment to this effect is being referred in para 4 of the writ petition by the petitioners. The petitioners’ mother-Smt. Rainka Devi is possessing Tribe Certificate bearing No. JK-Rev-

ST/2024/203599 dated 18.12.2024 issued by Tehsildar, Atholi (Paddar) as being the Issuing Authority.

03. The petitioners claim that despite their mother Smt. Rainka Devi’s marriage to their father Sh. Ashok Kumar Nehru, who was a Kashmiri Pan