HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIRAND LADAKH

AT SRINAGAR

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Whether the operative part or

Full judgment is pronounced: Full

1 UT of J&K through Principal Secretary

to Government Home Department.

2. Sr. Superintendent of Police District

Kulgam

3. Dy. SP DPL Kulgam

vs.

1 Bashir Ahmad Shah son of Mohd Maqbool Shah resident of Wasoora

Pulwama

2 Fayaz Ahmad Bhat son of Abdul Ahad

Bhat resident of Kanji Ullar Shopian

Mr. Mohsin Qadri Sr. AAG with Ms.

Maha Majeed Advocate for petitioners.

Mr. Hilal Ahmad Wani Advocate for

respondents.

Coram: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV KUMAR, JUDGE

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY PARIHAR, JUDGE

JUDGMENT

Sanjeev Kumar, J

1 This writ petition has been filed by the UT of Jammu and Kashmir and two others challenging an order and judgment dated 19.11.2024 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Srinagar Bench [“the Tribunal”] in TA No. 2761/2021 titled “Bashir Ahmad Shah and another vs. State of J&K and others”. The matter was initially filed before this Court as SWP

No. 1698/2017, but came to be transferred to the Tribunal upon the promulgation of the J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019, and was thereaf