SRINAGAR, Feb. 15 -- The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition by a Sikh body and two other employed youths from the community, challenging SRO 425 by virtue of Kashmir Pandit families were included in special job package for KP families residing in the Valley who had not migrated in the wake of events in 1990.

A bench of Justice Sanjeev Kumar however, held Government Order no.96-DMRR&R of 2017 dated 13th November 2017 unsustainable in law and accordingly, quashed it.

"I do not find the impugned Government Order no.96-DMRR&R of 2017 dated 13th November 2017 sustainable in law, for the same has the effect of modifying the Statutory Rules which is impermissible. All the posts created in pursuance to the Prime Minis...