Srinagar, Dec. 24 -- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh on Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) by Mehbooba Mufti, president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Chief Minister of the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir, seeking repatriation of all undertrial prisoners belonging to J&K lodged in the various prisons across India.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal, while dismissing the PIL, recorded "lacking material documents and grounded in ambiguity, the petition seeks to invoke the writ jurisdiction on the basis of incomplete and unsubstantiated facts, clearly unveiling its political undercurrents."

The judges said "we cannot lose sight of the fact that the petiti...