Jammu, July 3 -- A division bench of the Jammu and Kashmir high court, headed by chief justice Arun Palli, on Wednesday stayed a repatriation order passed by a single judge bench on June 6 pertaining to a 63-year-old woman, Rakshanda Rashid. Originally from Pakistan's Lahore, Rakshanda Rashid married a Jammu man 38 years ago and had been living here since then. The single bench order issued by justice Rahul Bharti on June 6 had issued directions to the Union ministry of home affairs to bring her back.

She was deported to Pakistan following India's punitive measures against Islamabad in the aftermath of the April 22 Pahalgam attack. The attack had left 26 people dead and scores injured. Consequent to the single bench order, the J&K Union ...