Srinagar, Oct. 25 -- Former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti has approached the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court seeking directions for the local lodgement of Kashmiri prisoners and comprehensive prison reforms across the union Territory.
The petitioner, invoking Article 226 of the Constitution of India, sought the Court's immediate intervention to direct the respondents to forthwith repatriate and transfer all under-trial prisoners belonging to Jammu and Kashmir who are currently lodged in prisons outside the union Territory to jails within JK.
The petitioner further requested that, in exceptional cases where such transfer is not feasible, the jail authorities be required to submit case-specific, ...