Published on : 24 Sep 2025, 6:49 am 5 min read

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) petition seeking the removal of graves of Kashmiri separatist leaders Maqbool Bhat and Afzal Guru from Delhi's Tihar Jail.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said that it cannot entertain the plea to remove the graves since that is a decision to be taken by the government taking into account law and order.

Nevertheless, the Court agreed with the petitioner's submission that the graves cannot become a pilgrimage or glorification site.

However, the Court said that there should be some empirical data on the site being glorified and a PIL alleging the same cannot be based on newspaper repor

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