Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 18: Hoteliers of Gulmarg today withdrew their pleas from the High Court on the issue of expired leases of their hotels in order to take up the matter with the Government.
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The Senior counsel of hoteliers, Zaffar Shah, sought permission from the court to withdraw the petitions of the hoteliers to enable them to move the Government, in the first instance, to resolve the dispute.
In response to the submission, senior AAG Mohsin Qadri told the court that the Government, too, is not averse to any fair, reasonable, equitable and viable solution to provide quietus to the whole dispute.
The Senior AAG accordingly, submitted that in the event the petitioner-hoteliers move any representation, the same shall be moved within two weeks from passing of the instant order and the same shall be taken cognizance by the competent authority.
“And the same shall be considered in the right earnest and before any formal decision is reached, the petitioners shall also be adequately heard. Whereupon, a decision taken by the competent authority shall be conveyed to all the petitioners individually”, the bench said adding with “In the wake of the position sketched out above and in terms of the statement made by counsel for the respective parties, we are not required to delve any further into the merits. Accordingly, all these petitions are disposed of in the above terms”.
The Court, before parting with the matter, observed that it heard these petitions at length on numerous occasions and invested considerable judicial time to take the matter to its logical end. But for the changed position that has emerged before the Court, possibly we would have concluded the proceedings today itself.
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