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.
Judge / Bench — Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sanjay Dhar and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shahzad Azeem, Judges
Those guidelines were not automatically applicable to High Court employees but supplied a relevant framework involving a formal deed, publication, Aadhaar authentication and record verification. Because the administrative side had not taken a final decision, the Bench refrained from deciding whether correction of the matriculation certificate could be insisted upon. It required an expeditious decision, preferably within two months, preserving a fresh challenge if necessary. The order thus requires consideration of an identified framework; it does not itself approve the name change or resolve the competing documentary requirements.
Case — Ajay Kumar Sharma v. High Court of Jammu and Kashmir & Ladakh and others · WP(C) No. 3321/2025 · 2026-10-13 · Jammu wing
Advocates appearing — Petitioner — Mr. Rahul Pant, Sr. Advocate, with Mr. Arindham Sharma, Advocate. Respondents — Ms. Pariksha Parmar, Advocate.