Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 5: Union Government has cleared the name of Advocate Javed Iqbal Wani for appointment as Judge of the common High Court of Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Reliable official sources said, “the Prime Minister’s Office has given its approval for appointment of Javed as High Court Judge and the formal notification is likely to be issued next week.”
Appointment of Javed will increase strength of existing Judges to 13 while there are four vacancies.
It is pertinent to mention here that SC Collegium in its meeting on January 22 this year under the chairmanship of Chief Justice of India, Sharad Arvind Bobde and in presence of two senior most Judges — Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Arun Mishra had approved the name of Advocate Javed Iqbal Wani and forwarded the same to Union Law Ministry for appointment as High Court Judge.
Advocate Iqbal Wani, who is the gold medallist in Law from Kashmir University had started his practice in the year 1990 and has been practising in Jammu and Srinagar Wings of High Court. Wani had also served as Additional Advocate General (February, 2019 to December 2019) and had also represented Government in several high profile cases including the Pathribal fake encounter case on the behalf of Army, Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association scam case and the defection case on the behalf of seven BJP MLAs in the year 2009-2010.
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