Srinagar, Oct 25: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has approached the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, seeking the immediate transfer of all undertrial prisoners from the Union Territory who are currently lodged in jails outside J&K.

In her petition, Mufti urged the court to direct the Union government, the J&K Home Department, and the Director General of Police to repatriate all such undertrials unless authorities provide written, case-specific reasons demonstrating a compelling necessity to keep them outside the UT. She also requested quarterly judicial reviews of such exceptional cases.

Mufti said she filed the plea in public interest after repeated appeals from families of undertrials went unanswered by the government. “Despite urging th

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