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The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has seeking the Central Reserve Police Force’s stand on a petition by a former constable against his dismissal from service for allegedly concealing his marriage to a Pakistani woman, The Indian Express reported on Thursday.

The paramilitary force, in its May 3 order to dismiss the former constable, Munir Ahmed, had also accused him of “knowingly harbouring” the Pakistani woman even after her visa expired

Munir, however, had said that he had received permission for the marriage on April 30 last year.

The former constable, who is a resident of Jammu and Kashmir’s Bhalwal, was last posted with the 41st battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force in Bhopal. He was stationed at the 72nd battalion stationed in Jammu and Kashmir before that.

Munir’s marriage to a Pakistani woman named Minal Khan was said to have come to light when India directed the country by April 27 in the backdrop of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, which killed 26 persons.

The paramilitary force said that his actions “were found to be in violation of service conduct and detrimental to national security”.

In his petition in the court, Munir described his dismissal from the paramilitary force as “arbitrary, capricious and whimsical”, adding that...