Srinagar, Sept. 29 -- "The entire system (of administrative machinery) appears to be steeped in inefficiency and incompetency" observed the High Court of J&K Monday while referring to non-compliance of one of its orders in a service writ petition of 2017.

"The entire system appears to be steeped in inefficiency and incompetency despite a veritable army of lawyers representing the respondents," observed the division bench in the case Prakash Kour versus SK Institute of Medical Sciences Srinagar (SKIMS).

The authorities at the Institute were directed to consider the case of the petitioner in the light of the Recruitment Rules of 1998 with utmost dispatch within a period of eight weeks.

Aggrieved by the non-compliance of the judgment, Kou...