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HC stays e-stamping in legal process 11/20/2015 12:05:47 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, Nov 19: The State High Court today directed government not to act upon order of introducing e-stamping facility in Jammu and Kashmir. Hearing a petition filed by stamp vendors association, a single bench of the court comprising Justice Hasnain Massodi directed government to file the response to the petition, filed by Srinagar Stamp Vendors Association by December 3. The association comprising 309 members approached high court against the government move to introduce e-stamping in the state. On November 2, Minister for Finance Haseeb Drabu launched the e-stamping system after state signed an agreement with Stock Holding Corporation of India (SHCI) - the consultant company of the e-stamping facility in the state. In its petition, the association has demanded that government order (77-f of 2013 on 25-03-2013), SRO-402 notified on 16-09-2013 and the agreement entered by the state through Commissioner of stamps with Stock Holding Corporation of India from Mumbai be quashed. "By introducing e-Stamping system, the respondents have virtually allowed an outside agency to have monopoly on the sale of stamps in the State of Jammu and Kashmir which is not permissible under law," the petitioner has stated. The impugned order and notification where-under an outside agency is bestowed with the power of purchase and sale of stamps is also hit by Article 370 of the Constitution of India and the other laws which are prevalent in the State of Jammu and Kashmir and forbid such a procedure as, as such, same are liable to be set aside. "By the involvement of an outside agency, it is bound to deprive all the stamp vendors of their livelihood and will render them jobless. The stamp vendors are doing the job of selling stamps manually from the time of Maharaja Gulab Singh and if e-Stamping is launched, they would be rendered jobless."   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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