The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has taken strong exception to ‘scandalous and wholly unsubstantiated’ allegations made against judicial officers in a transfer petition, directing the petitioners to tender an unconditional apology. Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal was hearing a transfer petition filed by a senior citizen litigant seeking the shifting of the case from a court in Pattan, Baramulla district. During the hearing, the court noted that the petition contained serious allegations accusing the judge of the trial court of being under the influence of the principal district judge and acting with bias. “Since the petitioners have levelled scandalous allegations in the instant matter without any basis and without any corroboration, this Court deems it proper, at the first instance, to direct the petitioners to file an unconditional apology,” the court ordered.…