Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Dec 11: In a Public Interest Litigation, A Division Bench of Jammu & Kashmir High Court Srinagar Wing Comprising Chief Justice (A) Rajesh Bindal and Justice Puneet Gupta, directed Registrar General (RG) of J&K Court to get details of all the civil and criminal cases filed against the persons who are not residents of the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh.
This significant direction has been passed in a petition filed by Bal Krishan who prayed before the Court that he is being unnecessarily harassed after registration of FIR No. 69 of 2019 dated 30.05.2019 under Sections 420, 467 & 468 RPC at Police Station, Anantnag against him though the allegations made in the complaint are totally false.
In the petition which is pending before the Single Bench of this Court, the issue raised by the petitioner is that there are number of complaints filed against the persons, who are not ordinarily residing in J&K and on the basis of that, FIRs are registered. There are some cases filed in the courts also in the form of complaints or civil suits seeking different reliefs. The object is merely to harass the people and extract money from them.
It was further pointed out by the counsel for petitioner in PIL that vide order dated 18.10.2019, the Registrar Vigilance of this Court was directed to find out the details of the cases registered against the persons, who are not residents of the Union Territory of J&K and have been implicated in criminal cases in South Kashmir. Though the report has been filed but the same mentions only the criminal cases registered by the police in four districts, namely, Anantnag, Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam. The details are not forthcoming with reference to the civil or criminal cases filed in the different courts in the aforesaid districts.
Upon this Division Bench directed Registrar General of this Court may get details of all the civil and criminal cases filed against the persons who are not residents of the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh.
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