Today A Division Bench of the J&K High Court Comprising Chief Justice (A) Rajesh Bindal and Justice Sanjay directed Registry of J&K High Court to list the review petitions filed by J&K Govt and other private persons including applications seeking clarification/modification judgment dated October 9, 2020 passed in PIL NO 19/2011 and other connected matters on December 16, 2020 and further directed the Registry to list all those new review petitions filed upto December 15, 2020 on December 16, 2020.
Division Bench also opened the sealed cover of the status report filed by CBI in the open Court and persuades the same. Division Bench after going through the status report of the CBI again sealed it and returned it to Adv Monika Kohli who appeared on behalf of CBI.
When this much publicized review petition filed by J&K Govt came-up for hearing, Advocate General DC Raina assisted by AAGs Aseem Sawhney and FA Natnoo drew the attention of the Division Bench towards the Apex Court order passed on December 10, 2020 whereby the High Court of J&K was requested to decided the review petition filed by J&K Govt by or before December 21, 2020.
Advocate General DC Raina read out the various paragraphs of the review petition and submitted that the Govt of J&K is for the poor persons having dewelling houses and also for farmers having small holdings. AG further submitted that the Govt will not spare encroachers, criminals and land grabbers.
At this stage Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed appearing for the petitioner informed the Division Bench that he has received to review petitions from Srinagar filed through Advocate Azhar-ul-Ameen and in those petitions the petitioners have also prayed for reviewing the judgment.
Sr. Adv Jehangir Iqbal Ganai also submitted that he also intends to file review petitions on behalf of those who have filed SLPs in the Supreme Court of India. Sr. Advocate Rohit Kapoor also submitted that he has already filed an application seeking clarification/modification of the judgment.
Adv Azhar-ul-Ameen also submitted that he has filed two review petitions on behalf of some private persons.
Division Bench looking into the submissions of battery of Advocates, observed in the open Court it is not possible to hear the matter in piece meals and it would be proper in case all the review petitions are heard together and accordingly directed the Registry list all the such matters on December 16, 2020 even if filed upto December 15, 2020. Division Bench specifically observed that directed that copies of the review petitions to be filed by the respective counsels be also furnished to the Advocates Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed and Ankur Sharma. DB further directed the pleadings be also exchanged with the office of Advocate General. DB further directed to provide the pleadings to the CBI Counsel Advocate Monika Kohli.
Division Bench further directed the Registry to list the main PIL along with the review petitions on December 16, 2020. JNF