Srinagar, Feb. 21 -- Hearing a plea, a bench of Justice Sanjay Dhar also directed that then Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal "deserves to be proceeded against for having filed a false pleading" before the District Judge, Ganderbal.

The case pertained to taking over possession of a building by District Development Commissioner and Additional Deputy Commissioner "without even informing the petitioner (owner) not to speak of obtaining his consent."

"The petitioner was not aware as to who is in possession of the building in question and it is only during the course of civil suit filed by him before the learned Principal District Judge, Ganderbal, that he came to know from the report of the Commissioner that the building is occupied by the Dist...