The Supreme Court has dismissed a curative petition seeking a probe by a central agency or any other court-appointed agency into the alleged mass murders and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir during 1989–1990. “In our opinion, no case is made within the parameters indicated in the Supreme Court decision in Rupa Hurra vs Ashok Hurra case,” the apex court said while dismissing the petition.

A curative petition is the last legal recourse in the Supreme Court and it is generally heard in the chamber unless a case is made out for reconsideration of the verdict. The petition was dismissed by a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and comprising Justices SK Kaul and SA Nazeer and the court said that no case was made out of the curative petition. The petition filed by a body of Kashmiri Pandits, ‘Roots in Kashmir’, stated that the Supreme Court was not justified in dismissing the curative petition at the admission stage in 2017 merely on the presumption that the instances referred to in it pertained to 1989-1990. It stated that no significant purpose would emerge as evidence is unlikely to be available at this late juncture.