India, Feb. 19 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Mirza Himayat Inayat Baig, a convict in the 2010 German Bakery bomb blast case, seeking to be transferred from a high-security isolated cell to the general barracks, claiming it was negatively impacting his mental health.

The division bench of justices Revati Mohite Dere and Dr Neela Gokhale noted that Baig's appeal was misconceived and there was no violation of any rights, constitutional or human. The bench said it was satisfied with the prosecution's position that Baig didn't need to be transferred to the general barracks as he wasn't in solitary confinement as claimed, but rather in a high-security cell with sufficient provisions and facilities. "There is...