Bring back woman deported to Pakistan: J&K High Court

The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has ordered the Union Home Secretary to repatriate a 63-year-old housewife to India who was deported to Pakistan following the crackdown against Pakistani nationals in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack.

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Judge Rahul Bharti, in a June 6, 2025 order, said, “Human rights are the most sacrosanct component of a human life and, therefore, there are occasions when a constitutional court is supposed to come up with SOS-like indulgence, notwithstanding the merits and demerits of a case, which can be adjudicated only upon in due course of time. Therefore, this court is coming up with a direction to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India (GOI), to bring back the petitioner from her deportation.”Petitioner Rakshanda Rashid from Pakistan had been staying in Jammu for the past 38 years with her husband and two children. Her daughter Falak Sheikh told The Hindu that for the past two months, her mother had been living alone in a hotel in Lahore. She had no immediate relatives there and might soon run out of money that she took from India.“She was here on a long-term visa (LTV), yet she was