Serial No. 29 Regular Cause list HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT SRINAGAR OWP 956/2017 MST. ZUBAIDA …Appellant(s)/Petitioner(s) Through: Mr. R.A. Bhat, Advocate Vs. STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND OTHERS ...Respondent(s) Through: Mr. P.S. Ahmad, Advocate Mr. Waseem Gul, GA CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH SEKHRI, JUDGE. ORDER 27.11.2025. The case set out by the petitioner is that she came to be engaged as Anganwadi Helper for the Anganwadi Centre, Boon Malla Mohalla, Tehsil Dooru, Anantnag, by respondent No. 6, vide engagement order dated 08.06.2015, pursuant to the advertisement notice bearing No. CDPO/LP/14/240- 42 dated 24.10.2014. She has been continuously discharging her duties as Anganwadi Helper and paid the honorarium up to June, 2017. The private respondent No. 7, aggrieved of the engagement of the petitioner, preferred an appeal before Deputy Commissioner Anantnag and engagement of the petitioner came to be cancelled by virtue of impugned order dated 15.12.2015. The petitioner has questioned the impugned order primarily on the ground that her engagement came to be cancelled by respondent No. 5- Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag, without issuance of any notice upon her, and, as such, she was condemned unheard. Mr. P.S. Ahmed, learned counsel for private respondent has submitted that he has no objection in case the present matter is remanded to the Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag for fresh consideration as per law. Statement is taken record. In view of the above, the present petition is allowed and impugned order dated 15.12.2015, passed by Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag is set aside. The matter is remanded to Deputy Commissioner, Anantnag, with the direction to consider the appeal preferred by the private respondent afresh and decide the same within a period of six weeks from the date copy of this order is made available to him, after affording reasonable opportunity of being heard to both the sides. Till then, the present status of the petitioner shall not be disturbed. Disposed of. (RAJESH SEKHRI) JUDGE Srinagar: 27.11.2025. Misba