Srinagar, Aug. 21 -- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh on Wednesday asked the Union Territory government to file within four days its reply in a public interest litigation (PIL) that alleged that despite large-scale seizure of rotten meat in Kashmir, the responsible authorities have failed to take effective and sustained action to prevent the menace.

The direction was ordered by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Pillai and Justice Rajnesh Oswal in the PIL filed by a young lawyer, Mir Umar from Kupwara, through advocate Shafqat Nazir.

The petitioner arrayed top level bureaucratic machinery of the UT as respondents ranging from Chief Secretary, Commissioner Secretaries to Government Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution Depar...