Srinagar- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh on Tuesday reserved its verdict on maintainability of a Public Interest Litigation filed by PDP President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, seeking the repatriation of all undertrials from Jammu and Kashmir who are currently lodged in jails across different states and Union Territories.

A division bench of Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal reserved the verdict even as it questioned Mehbooba’s counsel Aditya Gupta about the maintainability of the petition under public interest.

The Bench came down heavily on the petitioner for giving publicity to the petition even before it was filed before the court.

Earlier, T. M. Shamsi, Deputy Solicitor General of India (DSGI), argued that Mehbooba has no locus standi as she was not

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