Srinagar, Dec. 17 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has dismissed a petition challenging the rehabilitation and allotment of shops in the Sector-6 Shopping Complex, Batamaloo here, holding that the judicial process cannot be misused to obstruct lawful administrative action or prolong litigation for ulterior motives.Jammu and Kashmir tourism

Upholding the allotment process, a Bench Justice Wasim Sadiq observed that while access to justice was a constitutionally guaranteed right, the courts cannot be allowed to become "instruments of delay or abuse".

The Court cautioned that any attempt to misuse the judicial process strikes at the very heart of the justice delivery system and may, in future, invite exemplary costs in order ...