Srinagar, July 16 -- While the petitioner-Abdul Hamid Rather, a law student, contended that the stipulation was unfair to poor and underprivileged girls, senior additional Advocate General on behalf of the government assured the court that the matter shall be examined in the "right earnest" and appropriate orders in this regard shall be passed within a period of two months.

Subsequent to the submissions, a bench of Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal closed the PIL filed earlier this year, seeking court's direction to quash Clause 3(b) of Annexure 'A' to Government order No.49-JK(SWD) of 2022 dated March 22, 2022, issued by the Department of Social Welfare, Government of Jammu & Kashmir, as regards imposition of the eligib...