Zamindaran Committee Through Its … vs Union Of India And Ors on 3 April, 2025

Jammu & Kashmir High Court – Srinagar Bench

Zamindaran Committee Through Its … vs Union Of India And Ors on 3 April, 2025

                                                      S. No. 89
                                                      Supplementary Cause List
           HIGH C0URT 0F JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH
                           AT SRINAGAR

                                WP(C) No. 1557/2024
                                 CM No. 1786/2025
                                 CM No. 4205/2024
                                 CM No. 4206/2024


     Zamindaran Committee through its President ...Appellant(s),Petitioner(s)
     Shabir Ahmad Sofi

     Through:   Mr. S. N. Ratanpuri, Advocate with
                Ms. Fiza, Advocate.
                                         Vs.

     Union of India And Ors.                                       ...Respondent(s)


     Through:   Mr. T. M. Shamsi, DSGI with
                Ms. Shagufta Maqbool, Advocate

     CORAM:
                HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAHUL BHARTI JUDGE
                                      ORDER

03.04.2025

1. Mr. T. M. Shamsi, learned DSGI, representing respondents No. 1 to

4 and 7 submits that an exercise has been set afoot under the regime

of J&K Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property Act,

1968 and the Rules thereunder which is intended for the acquisition

of the requisitioned land with respect to which a representative writ

petition was filed in the year 1998 bearing OWP No. 292 of 1998

which resulted in its disposal on 22.12.2003 and now the second

writ petition, the present one, for the same very purpose that too in

a representative capacity, came to be instituted. Therefore, the

exercise which has been set on roll for acquisition of the
requisitioned property/ies is going to attain its logical end and

purpose within a reasonable period of time given the fact that multi-

layered formalities under the J&K Requisitioning and Acquisition

of Immovable Property Act 1968 are required to be rigorously

followed leaving no scope for any default at the end not only of the

acquisition authorities but also at the end of the Union of India as

well.

2. In the light of this statement by Mr. Shamsi, this Court sees that

this writ petition shall remain no longer on the docket of this court

as a fair disposal can be given to this writ petition by directing all

the respondents concerned to carry forward the exercise for

acquisition of the requisitioned property/ies to its logical end within

a reasonable period of time by bearing in mind the fact that even the

Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in its order dated 14.12.2009 had

setup a timeline for doing the exercise which has expired long back

without the desired exercise having been taken to its logical end and

closure.

3. This Court leaves the sense of reasonable time to the better

discretion of the concerned respondents, however, in case if any land

owner/holder of the requisitioned property would reckon that the

concerned respondents are indulging in dilatory tactics and/or

timewasting despite disposal of this writ petition by extending

reasonable time at the disposal of the respondents, then such an
aggrieved land owner/holder would be well within his/her right to

come forward individually or jointly with an independent writ

petition to seek the relief for which present writ petition came to be

filed without reference to any individual aggrieved owner/holder but

in a representative capacity

4. Disposed of in above terms, along with connected CM(s).

(RAHUL BHARTI)
JUDGE
SRINAGAR
03.04.2025.

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