The High Court Tuesday asked the government of India and the Jammu and Kashmir government to respond to pleas seeking directions to scrap the state government order banning movement of civilian vehicles along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway on Sunday and Wednesday every week to facilitate movement of security forces.
A division bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Tashi Rabstan issued notices to the Union defence ministry and the union ministry of home affairs through their secretaries and the Union ministry of surface transport, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the Jammu and Kashmir government.
