Srinagar, Nov. 3 -- The Jammy & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has stayed an order of a Shopian court that had set up an ad hoc committee to oversee Darul Uloom Jamia Siraj-ul-Uloom, the south Kashmir seminary declared an unlawful entity under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) earlier this year.

A division bench of Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Mohd Yousuf Wani passed the order on November 2 on a petition filed by the union Territory of J&K and others against the Siraj-ul-Uloom Welfare Foundation, Hillow, and another respondent.

The bench issued notice, which was waived by counsel for the respondents. It gave them four weeks to file objections and listed the matter for February 1.

"Subject to objections and till next dat...