Srinagar, Oct 25 (PTI) PDP president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has filed a petition before the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, seeking directions for the immediate transfer of all undertrail prisoners from the Union territory who are currently lodged in jails outside J-K.

The plea urges that such prisoners be brought back to local jails unless the authorities present case-specific, written reasons showing compelling necessity to keep them outside J-K, and that such cases be subjected to quarterly judicial review.

“The petitioner being a political activist and a former chief minister, a lot of family members of undertrials have been requesting the petitioner to take up the issue in this petition with the government.

“The petitioner urged the government for the return of unde

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