India, Nov. 6 -- The high court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has dismissed an application filed by two IAS officers-Pandurang Kondbarao Pole and Shahid Iqbal Choudhary-seeking intervention in a public interest litigation (PIL) to prevent the department of personnel and training (DoPT) from issuing prosecution sanction against them in the arms licence scam.

A division bench, comprising chief justice Dr Pushpendra Singh Bhati and justice Rajnesh Oswal, dismissed the application on November 3.

Pole, an AGMUT-cadre IAS officer of the 2004 batch, is currently secretary of Land and Building, NCT of Delhi, and Choudhary, a 2009-batch AGMUT cadre officer, is secretary, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. Through senior advocate Sakal Bhushan, t...