Srinagar, Dec. 18 -- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh today dismissed a petition challenging the rehabilitation and allotment of shops in the Sector-6 Shopping Complex of Batamaloo, saying that the judicial process cannot be misused to obstruct lawful administrative action.

The court upheld the allotment process in the complex and observed that while access to justice was a constitutionally guaranteed right, the courts cannot be allowed to become instruments of delay or abuse.

The bench presided over by Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal cautioned that any attempt to misuse the judicial process strikes at the very heart of the justice delivery system and may in future invite exemplary costs in order to preserve the sanctity of judicial proceedi...