Srinagar, Aug. 20 -- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has directed the Registry to forward a vigilance report to the Chief Secretary for appropriate legal action against a former member of the J&K Special Tribunal after an inquiry found that 65 cases involving major building violations were compounded for extraneous consideration and in violation of law.

The direction was issued by a Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Mohammad Yousuf Wani while closing a Public Interest Litigation concerning alleged rampant violations of building by-laws in Gogji Bagh, Srinagar.

The court, in its order dated August 18, said that during the proceedings in the PIL, it came to its notice that a particular member of the...