Srinagar, June 6 -- Srinagar- Observing that judicial orders are intended to have practical effect and cannot be formalities, the High Court of J&K and Ladakh on Saturday upheld an order directing a private educational institution, Woodland House School here, to comply with an earlier interim direction to release 50 percent salary dues to a former employee, while dismissing the educational institution's petition with costs of Rs 25,000.

A Bench of Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal ruled that interim court orders are executable under Section 36 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC) and rejected the contention that the respondent's only remedy was under Order 39 Rule 2-A CPC for alleged disobedience of an injunction.

The case arose from a civil s...