The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ordered formulation of special teams of lawyers to submit status reports of the main road projects in the Kashmir Valley, in the wake of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed to highlight decrepit roadways.
A Division Bench, comprising Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar and Justice Tashi Rabstan, on Tuesday empowered these teams of lawyers to “oversee and inspect the condition of various roads in the Valley”.
“The court will be informed properly through these teams,” the court observed, while hearing a PIL filed by the Civil Society Tral in south Kashmir.
The PIL highlighted the inconvenience inflicted on the commuters on the national highway in south Kashmir. The team of three lawyers — G.N. Sofi, Ashiq Hussain and Rizwan Bhat — will monitor both the Srinagar-Banihal and the Srinagar-Baramulla stretches.
The court move comes as the 67-km four-lane of Srinagar-Banihal highway, commissioned in 2011 failed to meet all the deadlines.
