Srinagar, Nov. 14 -- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has restrained Jammu and Kashmir Bank from deducting loan dues from the pension account of a retired government employee who had stood as guarantor for a borrower who later defaulted on repayment.

Allowing an appeal filed by Nazir Ahmad Kuchay, a retired police personnel and senior citizen, Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi set aside an order of the 3rd Additional District Judge, Srinagar, which had refused to grant interim protection against deductions from his pension account.

Kuchay had approached the court after the bank allegedly began deducting loan installments from his pension following the principal borrower's failure to repay the loan. He maintained that his pension was his onl...