Land Grant Rules 2022 Notified By Lieutenant Governor Without President's Consent Not Valid: Plea Filed In Jammu & Kashmir High Court
Live LawA petition has been filed before the Jammu and Kashmir High Court challenging the Land Grant Rules 2022 notified by the UT's administrator, the Lieutenant Governor in December last year. A single bench of Justice Vinod Chatterji Koul on Monday ordered “no coercive action” be taken against the petitioner, who had been granted State land on lease in terms of the erstwhile Land Grant Act 1960, that now stand repealed with notification of the 2022 Rules. "In the present case the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is under the President's Rule, and the rule making power has been exercised by the Lieutenant Governor without any assent from the President of India" the petitioner pleaded. Inviting the attention of the court towards the huge investments that the petitioner has made from 1982 on the leased land and apprising the court about the fresh investments he was about to make in view of obtaining NOC from all departments and in line with the master plan of Jammu, the petitioner pleaded that despite all this an extremely unconstitutional and illegal piece of Rules have been put into place leaving the petitioner under imminent threats of the violations of his constitutional and statutory/ contractual rights.
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