Editorial Team 
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld restoration of an ejectment suit and rejected the argument that refusal of restoration required a regular first appeal as a decree.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court rejected the judgment debtor’s argument that a compromise clause allowing an aggrieved party to approach the court displaced execution of the decree.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court declined to reject a possession-protection suit merely because the land was evacuee property.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court allowed the acquisition appeal to the extent that four kanals promised as land compensation had never been handed over, directing allotment and delivery of State or JDA land of similar value within three months.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court placed a Munsiff’s demolition direction in abeyance because it had been made on a Tehsildar’s report without first hearing the affected petitioners.
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court set aside the dismissal of a habeas petition and quashed the detention order on two grounds — an unexplained delay of nearly five months in deciding the detenue’s representation, and failure to establish a live and proximate connection between the material relied upon and the need for detention.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court quashed an SDM’s direction to harvest a wheat crop under village officials’ supervision after the petitioners asserted possession as allottees of the disputed land.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld preliminary findings that a suit claiming ownership through adverse possession was maintainable and sufficiently described the land.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court set aside transfer of two Section 138 Negotiable Instruments Act complaints after the original Magistrate had heard arguments and reserved them for decision.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court entertained a challenge to a PSA order at the pre-execution stage and set it aside, finding that unexplained delays undermined the claimed need for immediate preventive action.
