Srinagar, Sept. 17 -- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh on Wednesday directed Commissioner Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development Department and Sales Tax besides others to file their response to a Public Interest Litigation on sale of rotten, unhygienic meat, fish and poultry products in Jammu and Kashmir.

Hearing the PIL, a Division Bench of Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal asked the Commissioner Secretaries and all other official respondents to file their response within ten days.

On the last date of hearing, the court was informed that meat and poultry is transported into J&K from different parts of the country in unhygienic conditions without cold-chain facilities and requisite certification by authorized v...