Overview
- Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal ordered the administration to establish the college with utmost expedition and warned that no further delay will be countenanced.
- Government Order No. 300-HE of 2018, which had sanctioned the college for Siligam, was quashed by the court.
- The judgment notes that expert committees in 2012 and 2018 consistently found Aishmuqam to be the feasible site based on population, access and land factors.
- The court criticized prolonged indecision, contradictory communications and failure to seek vacation of interim orders, citing educational loss and long travel burdens for students.
- Emphasizing public interest, the court urged restraint in granting interim relief in infrastructure and welfare cases and declined to revisit belated locus and maintainability objections.