Amid Kargil Resentment, LG VK Saxena Approves Leh for High Court Bench Sitting in Ladakh

Leh, September 22: On the recommendations of the Chief Justice of High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, Lieutenant Governor, Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena, has approved Leh as the initial place of sitting for the Sitting Bench of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh in the Union Territory of Ladakh.

The Registrar General of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, on September 15, 2026, had conveyed that the Chief Justice had recommended Leh as the initial place of sitting for ...

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Justice Comes to the Mountains: What Ladakh’s High Court Bench Really Means

Sonam Wangdus AKA ADU

A High Court judgment from a small Himalayan valley ripples across the world. Lawyers in Geneva. Judges in New Delhi. Environmental scholars in London. All citing a case about a Ladakhi watershed, about how development in fragile mountains must answer to both law and nature. That’s not fantasy. It could be our future. For years, this was unimaginable. A Ladakhi facing a legal wrong, an arbitrary government order, an illegal land grab, an environmental violation faced a b...

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