Editorial Team 
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court quashed a Kathua detention order and its governmental approvals and extensions, finding the exercise unsupported by concrete factual material and vitiated by malice in law.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court directed the authorities to have the petitioner’s statement re-recorded before the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Sub-Judge, Nowshera, during investigation of an alleged abduction.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court refused to quash proceedings alleging sexual exploitation on a false promise of marriage, including acts said to have begun while the complainant was a minor.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court quashed an FIR and the resulting charge sheet under Sections 341, 323 and 336 RPC after the parties settled and the Registrar Judicial verified their compromise.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court set aside the Special Judge’s rejection of the ACB closure report in the Saubhagya investigation insofar as it concerned four petitioner engineers, agreeing with the closure report for them.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court quashed an FIR against a Tehsildar and municipal officer arising from a Chowkidar’s report of demarcation on land occupied by the Munsiff’s court.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court quashed proceedings concerning a forged permanent resident certificate used in police recruitment because the material did not establish the applicant’s knowledge or reason to believe that it was forged, as required by Section 471 RPC.
In two connected petitions by police officers, the Court set aside a Magistrate’s direction to register an FIR because it did not record satisfaction that the complaint disclosed cognizable offences requiring police investigation.
On a challenge to the Special NIA Court’s refusal to prioritise identified prosecution witnesses, the Division Bench directed the trial court to ensure that eyewitnesses and other material witnesses are examined before formal or official witnesses.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court refused to quash a charge sheet arising from allegations of house trespass and assault merely because proceedings under Sections 107 and 117 CrPC had also arisen from the incident.
