New Delhi, May 17, 2023 (PPI-OT):The Indian Supreme Court has transferred to the High Court of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir a plea stating that over 20 people detained under draconian law Public Safety Act (PSA) have been shifted out of the territory prisons to jails in various Indian states like Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala transferred the case while hearing a plea filed by Raja Begum and other relatives of detenues. The bench asked the Chief Justice of the IIOJK High Court to hear the petition expeditiously.

Earlier, the top court on November 4, last year, had sought responses from the Indian government, the IIOJK administration and others on the plea stating that several persons illegally detained under the PSA have been shifted from the territory to the jails in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. The plea was filed by a woman named Raja Begum and three others. One of the detainees, Arif Ahmad Sheikh, son of Begum, a resident of Parimpora in Srinagar, was shifted to the central Jail in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. He was illegally detained under the PSA on April 07, 2022.

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