NEW DELHI: The Jammu and Kashmir administration told the Supreme Court on Monday that Sara Pilot must move the high court to challenge her brother and former CM Omar Abdullah’s detention under the Public Safety Act. The SC should not entertain habeas corpus petitions when the HC was adjudicating challenges to various preventive detention orders, it said.
The bench, however, said it was a matter of liberty and recalled that another petition by Iltija Mufti challenging the detention of her mother, ex-CM Mehbooba Mufti, was also pending. Though it was to be heard on March 18, the bench will now hear both on March 5.
‘HC has nixed 68 Jammu and Kashmir detentions so far, upheld 11’
Attorney general K K Venugopal told a bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Indira Banerjee that the high court had been adjudicating petitions chall
