Srinagar, Mar 6, March 7 -- The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has refused to overturn its earlier judgment dismissing a plea by several shopkeepers challenging the rent fixation by the Rent Assessment Committee. A bench of Justices Sindhu Sharma and Shahzad Azeem noted that the shopkeepers had accepted the allotment of land and undertaken to pay rent based on prevailing market rates, and are therefore "estopped from challenging the same at this stage."The appellants had argued that the rent of Rs 10 per square foot per month, with a 20% enhancement every five years, was arbitrary and substantially higher than that paid by other shopkeepers in the area. They claimed they were not given an opportunity to participate in the assessm...