Editorial Team 
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court directed the Registrar General to decide an employee’s request to change his name in service records, considering the Government’s 2023 name-change guidelines.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court transferred a writ petition seeking pension and other post-retirement benefits to the Armed Forces Tribunal, Srinagar Bench at Jammu.
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court declined to interfere with rejection of a challenge to another ALC-category candidate’s appointment in Jammu.
The Division Bench dismissed a claim under the 1994 compassionate-appointment rules following the petitioner’s mother’s death in militancy-related violence.
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court dismissed the Government’s challenge to notional Lecturer and Senior Lecturer benefits awarded to a teacher whose eligible junior had been advanced first.
The Union challenged an Armed Forces Tribunal award recognising an eye disease alongside service-attributable pulmonary tuberculosis for disability pension.
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld the Tribunal’s quashing of a discharge order because the employee had not been served with the charge-sheet or shown to have received enquiry notices.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court quashed preventive detention resting on general allegations of contact with terrorists and overground workers, instigation of youth and logistical support.
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court stayed a Tribunal judgment undoing a mutual transfer and the consequential relieving order, permitting the petitioner to continue at her existing school pending further orders.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court rejected a claim to continued municipal employment because the engagements rested on a council resolution without proof of the prior Government or authorised-officer approval required by section 307 of the Municipal Act.
