Srinagar, Oct. 25 -- 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 peti...