Overview
- On December 23, the J&K and Ladakh High Court dismissed Mufti’s PIL seeking transfers of detainees, calling it politically motivated and citing lack of locus standi.
- Mufti estimates roughly 1,260 people from Kashmir are lodged as undertrials in jails outside the Union Territory, with some held five to six years without trial.
- She says letters to the Union Home Minister, the Home Secretary, the J&K Chief Secretary and the Director General of Prisons produced no substantive response.
- Urging intervention by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and National Conference MPs, including Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, she calls for legal aid and for shifting those not facing serious charges to local jails.
- She references national concern over undertrial populations and cites a figure of 1,206 arrests under UAPA linked to Kashmir as she pledges that the PDP will keep pursuing the issue.