(PTI)
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to file a report on the latest status of the foreign nationals, including those from Pakistan, languishing in jails after having serving out their full sentence. A direction to this effect came from a bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan after Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar submitted that the Centre had filed a status report in the matter in April last year.
“The Union of India had filed a status report in the form of an additional affidavit dated April 19, 2016. Let that report be updated and a latest report be filed,” the bench said.The apex court also asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to file a report in this regard after senior advocate Bhim Singh, the petitioner in the case, said that the state should also be directed to furnish the details about such foreign nationals.
Singh, who heads a political party, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party, told the bench that when he had filed the plea in 2005, there were 82 such persons who were detained in Jammu and Kashmir. To this, the bench said, “What is the position today? Some of them must have been released or deported? We want to know the today’s position.”
