Srinagar, Dec. 26 -- Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday asked as to why the judiciary has not taken a suo motu notice of the growing undertrial crisis , saying thousands of prisoners continue to languish in jails for years without conviction.
Two days earlier, a division bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court dismissed her Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking transfer of J&K trials in outside jails back to UT jails. The High Court observed that the petition was vague, unsubstantiated and politically driven, and failed to meet the legal standards.
Addressing a press conference, Mehbooba said that since 2019, large-scale detentions- particularly in jails outside Jammu and Kashm...