Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 19: High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has stayed the order of Deputy Commissioner Poonch whereby PSP certificate of newly selected Munsiff Abrar Nawaz Qureshi was revoked.
Justice Rajesh Sekhri stayed the order after hearing Senior Advocate Vikram Sharma for the petitioner whereas Senior AAG Monika Kohli for the UT and Senior Advocate Pranav Kohli for the private respondent.
During the course of hearing, Senior Advocate Vikram Sharma submitted that petitioner is actually resident of village Chajjla, tehsil Mankote of Poonch district and this village is adjoining the Line of Control and has already been declared as such.
“While actually and physically residing in the village, petitioner completed his school education up to 8th standard from Public Education Trust and Public Higher Secondary School, Mendhar and thereafter passed 10th, 11th and 12th classes from Govt Higher Secondary School, Mankote. Photocopies of the certificates issued by Tehsildar Mendhar and Mankote to the extent that these schools falls in the villages categorized as adjoining Line of Control and after passing 12th Standard Exam, petitioner was very keen to study Law, as such, applied for undergoing five-year Law Course and accordingly got selected for undergoing the course at Law School, University of Jammu”, the counsel for the petitioner submitted.
He successfully passed the same in 2019 and thereafter got himself enrolled as an Advocate and started practicing law in different courts with effect from March, 2020. The Govt of J&K through Social Welfare Department issued Notification on 20.04.2020 in the form of SO 127, in terms of which, certain amendments were made in the J&K Reservation Rules, 2005, thereby giving 4% reservation in Direct Recruitment to Pahari Speaking People (PSP).
Since the petitioner belongs to Pahari Community, more particularly a tribe having a distinct cultural, ethnic and linguistic identity, as such, on being duly identified by the competent authority, petitioner after joining the legal profession and also becoming independent as well as having the schoolings from schools located in the villages adjoining the Line of Control, applied for issuance of Pahari Speaking People (PSP) Category Certificate. However, the certificate was revoked by the Deputy Commissioner Poonch.
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