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Former J&K Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti connected Friday (December 26, 2025) said the J&K High Court’s caller bid connected a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) related to shifting of Kashmiri undertrials was “surprising, unfortunate and focussed connected authorities but not reason”.
“The tribunal bid passed connected my PIL was unfortunate and surprising. The tribunal says anyone tin file a PIL but since I americium a person I filed it for governmental reasons. The tribunal forgot that politicians connected to the ground. We recognize the symptom radical spell done and particularly those whose relatives are successful jails for years together,” Ms. Mufti said.
She said the tribunal was the past edifice for her “to guarantee that undertrials who person nary superior charges” are brought backmost to Kashmir. “There should person been a statement connected crushed and PIL but alternatively the statement was astir me. The tribunal should person taken sou motu cognisance of specified cases and sought answers from the government. Undertrials cannot beryllium termed arsenic convicts. Many are down the bars without trials,” Ms. Mufti said.
Ms. Mufti said she chose to sound connected the doors of the precocious tribunal aft her earlier efforts failed. “After 2019, galore youths were arrested and shifted outside. In 2 abstracted letters, I urged the Union Home minister, location secretary, J&K Chief Secretary, and Director General Prisons to stock details connected undertrials. There has been nary response,” Ms. Mufti said.
She urged the Members of Parliament (MPs) of ruling National Conference (NC) to spot details of undertrials successful the Parliament. “We person nary MP successful the Parliament. The Omar Abdullah authorities and his MPs should spot details. The J&K authorities should supply ineligible assistance arsenic astir of the families of these undertrials bash not spend the expenses, adjacent for travel,” Ms. Mufti said.
Ms. Mufti besides urged the legislators of the NC to signifier a committee and sojourn the jails extracurricular J&K “to find retired the conditions of Kashmiri undertrials”. “We are discussing the caller tribunal bid wrong the enactment to instrumentality caller measures. We volition not let this contented to beryllium connected a backmost burner,” Ms. Mufti said.
The High Court connected December 23 dismissed the Public Interest Litigation and observed that it was “driven by governmental considerations alternatively than genuine nationalist interest”. The tribunal said since Ms. Mufti was a third-party alien to the alleged grievances and “had failed to found bona fide nationalist interest”.
