Jammu Tawi, July 4 -- A division bench of the Jammu Kashmir & Ladakh High Court, presided 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 Pakistani woman, Rakshanda Rashid. Hailing from Lahore, Rakshanda Rashid claimed to have married a Jammu man 38 years ago and had been living here since then. She was deported to Pakistan following India's punitive measures against Pakistan after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that brazenly killed 26 tourists and a local ponnywala.

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.

Consequent to the single bench orde...