Satisfied with HC committee's report which says no minors detained in J&K: SC

The Supreme Court Friday said it is satisfied with the report of juvenile justice committee of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court which has said that allegation regarding detention of minors in the erstwhile state post the abrogation of provisions of Article 370 are incorrect.

A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana, after perusing the committee's report, said that four judges of the high court had visited the jails in Jammu and Kashmir and they have said that "no such instance has taken place" there.

When senior advocate Huzefa Ahmadi, appearing for petitioner Enakshi Ganguly who has alleged that minors were detained there post abrogation of provisions of Article 370, said he would go through the report and file his response, the bench said it was not proper if the court does not believe its "own judges".

When Ahmadi insisted that minors were under illegal detention there, the bench said, "Between some report by some newspaper in Washington and report by four judges of our high court, what should we accept."
Attorney General K K Venugopal and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta questioned Ahmadi's arguments that he would file a response after going through the committee's report and said "it is stretching too far."