Srinagar, Dec. 8 -- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has set aside a Judicial Magistrate's order directing the Economic Offences Wing (EOW), formerly Crime Branch, to register an FIR and investigate the alleged custodial death of a 25-year-old youth in Srinagar in July 2022.

Allowing a petition filed by the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), EOW Kashmir, a bench of Justice Sanjay Dhar remanded the matter back to the Magistrate for passing fresh orders on the complaint filed by the deceased youth's mother, strictly in accordance with law.

In his plea, the SSP contended that the EOW had no jurisdiction to probe the allegation that the woman's son (Muslim Muneer of Natipora Srinagar) was tortured to death at Police Station Nowgam, cont...