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SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has acquitted Habibullah Kumar, a former In-charge Establishment Clerk at the Block Development Office (BDO), Larkipora Shahabad, Anantnag, in a 2009 bribery case, holding that the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he had demanded or voluntarily accepted illegal gratification. Justice Sanjay Dhar set []

SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed the preventive detention of a Rajouri man booked in three cases concerning transportation of bovine animals without permission, holding that such allegations, by themselves, were not sufficient to invoke the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act. The court also found that authorities had violated []

SRINAGAR: The High Court of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed the preventive detention of Mohd. Asgar alias Tola, holding that the criminal cases cited against him by the authorities were either too old to have a live and proximate link with the need for preventive detention or had subsequently been settled and quashed. The []

SRINAGAR: National Conference MP Syed Aga Ruhullah Mehdi on Wednesday questioned the repeated delays in expansion of the Jammu and Kashmir Council of Ministers, saying governance was suffering as ministers were burdened with multiple portfolios. Ruhullah said assurances regarding cabinet expansion had been made several times but had not materialised. The expansion was first talked []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has ordered that the suspension of Er. Manzoor Ahmad Dar, an In-Charge Executive Engineer arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), be treated as effective from the date of his arrest on March 28, 2026. The decision was issued by the Public Works (R and B) Department through Government Order []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department has revised the seniority positions of two Senior Lecturers, Mohd Ayub and Bashir Ahmad Wani, in the final seniority list of +2 Senior Lecturers. The decision was issued through Government Order No. 337-JK(Edu) of 2026 by the Human Resource Management Section of the School Education Department. The []

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has sanctioned the Non-Functional Pay Scale of Level 10-A (Rs 56,6001,79,800) for 35 Junior Scale Accounts Officers, including eight retired officers and one deceased officer. The Finance Department issued Government Order No. 6-F of 2026, dated August 25, following recommendations made by the Selection Committee at its meeting on []

SRINAGAR: The central deputation tenure of senior IAS officer Nitishwar Kumar, who previously served as Principal Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, has been extended until his superannuation in August 2027. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the continuation of Kumars central deputation beyond September 30, 2026, up to August []