Overview
- Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela allowed the petitioners to withdraw the case, recording it as dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to refile with data.
- The court noted that no law prohibits burial or cremation inside prisons and stressed that the burials were conscious executive decisions taken to avoid law-and-order fallout.
- The judges said media reports cannot ground a public interest case and that petitioners must show infringement of statutory or constitutional rights.
- The plea by Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh and Jitendra Singh claimed the graves near Jail No. 3 had become a “radical pilgrimage” site and sought relocation to an undisclosed location.
- The graves remain inside Tihar, where Maqbool Bhat was executed in 1984 and Afzal Guru in 2013, and the bench indicated it could ask jail authorities to curb any glorification if supported by evidence.