HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT JAMMU WP (C) No. 1651/2025 M/s Guchuu Ram Contractor .....Applicant(s)/Petitioner(s) Through :- Ms. Deepali Arora, Advocate v/s UT of J & K and Ors. .....Respondent(s) Through :- Ms. Chetna Manhas, Assisting counsel to Mrs. Monika Kohli, Sr. AAG CORAM: HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE MOKSHA KHAJURIA KAZMI, JUDGE ORDER 04.07.2025 1. By this petition, petitioner is seeking direction upon the respondents to release the admitted liability for the contract works executed by him. 2. The respondents are stated to have issued an allotment order in favour of the petitioner for the execution of work with respect to the execution of Flood Protection Works (emergent in nature) in Flood Control Division, Jammu in 2013-14. 3. Petitioner is stated to have executed the allotted work within the stipulated period and for the completion of work, the petitioner had also made representations before the respondents for release of payment in his favour but despite that the respondents have not released the payment. 4. Petitioner has placed on record copies of certain inter se communications of the respondents including a communication issued by the Executive Engineer, Flood Control Division, Jammu Sr. No. 116 2 WP (C) No. 1651/2025 in terms whereof liability statement of the petitioner has been submitted to respondent no. 2. The said communication clearly reflects the completion of work undertaken by the petitioner as also the outstanding amount payable to the petitioner. The respondents have, thus, fairly admitted to the liability projected by the petitioner. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he would feel satisfied if the respondents be directed to consider the release of the admitted liability withheld by them. 6. Having regard to the prayer made by learned counsel for the petitioner, the instant writ petition is disposed of at its threshold, with a direction to the respondents to consider the claim of the petitioner as projected in the writ petition and take a decision thereon within a period of two months from the date, a certified copy of this order is furnished by the petitioner to them subject to verification of the requisite bills. The decision so taken by the respondents shall be conveyed to the petitioner. (Moksha Khajuria Kazmi) Judge JAMMU 04.07.2025 Manan