HOTEL WELCOME GULMARG Vs. UT OF J&K

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Ms. Sharaf Wani, learned counsel for the petitioner, and also heard Mr. Illayas Nazir Laway, learned GA, for the respondents.

(2.) In this petition, the petitioner has challenged the order bearing No. GDA/F-PIL/2022/1614 dtd. 13/8/2022 passed by the Gulmarg Development Authority. The petitioner further seeks a direction upon the respondents to allow renovation/repair of the hotel building under the name and style of Welcome Hotel, situated at Site No. 1, Plot No. 2, in Gulmarg.

(3.) It is the case of the petitioner that the petitioner has been running the aforesaid hotel business under the name and style of Hotel Welcome at Gulmarg since 1978, as a lessee in terms of permission granted by the then Gulmarg Project Organization (now Gulmarg Development Authority).