New Delhi :A public interest litigation has been filed by Maghav Kohli before Honble High court of division bench comprising of Honble Chief justice Geeta mittal and Justice Sanajy Dhar.
Adv.Priyanshu Sharma And Adv.Aditya Sharma appeared on behalf of the Petitioner and submitted that despite of the coming into being of reorganasitaion Act no decision has been taken by the authorities with respect to declaration of official language of UT JK.
It was further pleaded that in terms of Section 47 of the Reorgansitaion Act , authorities are required to declare Hindi or english as Official Language of the UTJK.
Counsels submitted that right from the very inception of erstwhile state of J&K the commonly used language in the Province of Jammu is dogri and Hindi.It is further submitted that all the govt.and pvt.schools in jammu province, hindu language has remained a compulsory subject upto 10th standard and urdu as a optional subject.Also the people of Jammu has become constant victim of this language barrier which has been slapped over them by the administration in the erstwhile J&K state.This discrimination is in force right from the day of accession of J&K and is still holding its feet even after the abrogation of Article 370 viz-a-viz,the J&K reorganization Act, 2019.
It was also pleased that our revenue record, police record everything is in Urdu language because of which the people of Jammu Province has to be at the receiving end always and even as per the High Court Rules, a translated copy is required to be submitted which makes it difficult for judiciary as well as the people.
Honble Court after hearing Adv.Priaynshu Sharma and Adv.Aditya Sharma issued notices to the respondents and directed them to file reply.