J&K: High court dismisses Mufti's PIL citing political motives

JAMMU: The precocious tribunal of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh connected Tuesday dismissed a PIL filed by erstwhile J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti seeking the transportation of undertrials—currently imprisoned successful jails extracurricular J&K—back into the Union Territory.The part seat of Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal said the petition was vague, unsubstantiated, and politically driven, and failed to conscionable the ineligible standards required for entertaining a PIL. The petitioner failed to supply specifics of affected families oregon prisoners, the quality of cases, oregon immoderate transportation orders, the tribunal noted.In her petition, the PDP president had besides sought an “access protocol” for play in-person household interviews and unrestricted privileged lawyer-client meetings, monitoring by ineligible services authorities, too a projected two-member oversight committee.The seat held that the petition, “lacking worldly documents and grounded successful ambiguity,” sought to invoke writ jurisdiction connected incomplete and unsubstantiated facts “clearly unveiling its governmental undercurrents”.The seat observed that the PIL appeared to person been initiated “for the explicit intent of garnering governmental advantage,” stressing that PIL cannot beryllium utilized to beforehand partisan agendas oregon person the tribunal into a governmental platform.

“Since nary of the allegedly affected undertrials had approached the tribunal adjacent done organization mechanisms, the seat held that Mufti, arsenic a governmental leader, lacked lasting to espouse their cause,” the seat noted.The tribunal held that a purely idiosyncratic grievance concerning a prisoner’s rights cannot ordinarily beryllium the taxable of PIL.