In a first, J&K HC holds court from LoC

SRINAGAR: Justice Sanjeev Kumar, the senior-most justice of the precocious tribunal of J&K and Ladakh, presided implicit a part bench’s proceedings from the distant and picturesque Gurez Valley adjacent the Line of Control successful northbound Kashmir’s Bandipora territory connected Tuesday, a historical archetypal successful the judicial past of J&K, according to the HC.“Justice Sanjeev Kumar was connected an authoritative travel determination and helium heard each the listed cases from Munsiff Court astatine Gurez done virtual mode,” an authoritative connection from the HC said, adding that “the historical seat comprised of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Sanjay Parihar.”Justice Parihar was sitting successful Jammu.Gurez Valley, astir 123 km from Srinagar, saw dense shelling from Pakistan during Operation Sindoor earlier this year.

Like different places of J&K, tourism successful the Gurez vale besides suffered a large setback aft each tourer spots were closed pursuing the April 22 Pahalgam panic attack. However, Gurez was among the archetypal destinations to reopen successful July, and since then, the spot has been buzzing with tourism activity.The HC connection said lawyers attended their cases from Jammu and Srinagar wings of the HC done video conferencing facility.

“As galore arsenic 45 cases from Jammu helping and 5 cases from Kashmir helping were heard, exhausting the full origin database for the day.”The connection said that Justice Sanjeev Kumar directed the cardinal task coordinator of the HC to guarantee seamless work of e-filing, show of timely lawsuit information, real-time show of origin database for accusation to each the litigants to forestall immoderate deprivation to specified facilities.The connection said that “by making due usage of the same, lawyers tin e-file their cases anyplace successful the country, e-file replies, cheque presumption of their cases, origin database of immoderate tribunal and support the radical of Gurez connected with each the courts crossed India.”