{"id":5000,"date":"2020-06-12T13:21:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2020-06-12T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:21:42","slug":"justice-javed-iqbal-wani-takes-oath-hc-bench-strength-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/12\/justice-javed-iqbal-wani-takes-oath-hc-bench-strength-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Javed Iqbal Wani Takes Oath, HC Bench Strength Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Srinagar, June 12 : The bench strength of Jammu and Kashmir High Court rose to 13 as Justice Javed Iqbal Wani took oath on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports reaching GNS said that Chief Justice Gita Mittal administered the oath of office to Justice Wani at the Srinagar Wing of the High Court at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday last, President of India appointed Justice Wani as the Judge of the common High Court to J&amp;K and Ladakh with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office.<br>\nHis recommendation, made by the Supreme Court Collegium, was pending with the government of India for the past few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After he took the oath, the bench strength of the High Court increased to 13 against the total strengthen of 17 judges include the Chief Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advocate Iqbal Wani is the gold medallist in Law from Kashmir University and had started practice in 1990. He had been practising in Jammu and Srinagar Wings of High Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had also served as Additional Advocate General from February 2019 to December 2019 and had also represented army in many cases including the Pathribal fake encounter one. (GNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, June 12 : The bench strength of Jammu and Kashmir High Court rose to 13 as Justice Javed Iqbal Wani took oath on Friday. Reports&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}