Jammu & Kashmir State Judicial Academy Sunday organised daylong training programme on ‘Land Laws and Bar of Jurisdiction of Civil Courts’, for Sub-Judges of Kashmir Province.
According ot a statement Nisar Hussain Gilani, retiredassistant commissioner revenue and Mushtaq Ahmad Maqdoomi, advocate were theresource persons in the training programme.
Nisar Hussain Gilani spoke on the historical perspective anddevelopment of land laws in J&K. While giving the historical account of theimplementation of modern settlement operations in the state, Gilani recalledthe contribution of Sir Walter Lawrence during Maharaja’s regime. He said thatwork done by Lawrence is unparallel and even today with modern tools, isdifficult to replicate.
Mushtaq Ahmad Maqdoomi spoke on the topic of jurisdictionalaspects in the suits coming up before the civil courts pertaining to landmatters. He deliberated upon various provisions of different legislationsconcerning bar of jurisdiction of the civil courts and told that bar ofjurisdiction cannot be readily inferred. Only in those matters where revenueofficers are specifically empowered to exercise powers and functions,jurisdiction of civil court would be barred.
Rajeev Gupta, Director, State Judicial Academy conducted theproceedings in the training programme and at the end of the programme thankedthe resource persons and the participating judicial officers for usefulinteractions and deliberations.