Srinagar, Dec. 23 -- The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on Tuesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by PDP President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti seeking transfer of undertrials from jails outside the union Territory back to J&K.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal held that the petition was vague, unsubstantiated and politically driven, and failed to meet the legal standards required for entertaining a PIL.
Mehbooba had sought directions for the immediate transfer of all undertrials belonging to J&K who are lodged in prisons outside the UT, unless authorities could demonstrate "unavoidable and compelling necessity" for such detention.
She had also sought ...