Sharmila Yadav, the wife of BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, who had filed a Habeas Corpus petition claiming her husband had been untraceable and feared that he was being illegally detained, will now be able to meet her husband.

Her husband, Tej Bahadur Yadav, had posted a video on his Facebook page on the poor quality of rations handed out to BSF jawans, which went viral.

After the Centre responded that he has not been in illegal detention, but is in the Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir, the court intervened that Sharmila be allowed to travel to meet Yadav. She will now be staying for two days with her husband at his post in Samba.

The Centre has also told the court that Yadav has not been taken to any undisclosed location and has merely been moved to the 80th batallion of the BSF.

On Friday, a bench headed by Justice G.S. Sistani asked the Centre as to why can it not allow Sharmila to meet her husband if she has some apprehensions about his wellbeing.

How can your officers be so insensitive? Why can the woman not meet her husband, said Justice Sistani.

The court was not impressed with the call chart placed before it by Additional Solicitor-General Sanjay Jain to show that the man and his wife have been in telephonic contact till February 7, 2017.


Image: Tej Bahadur Yadav with his wife Sharmila in picture posted on his Facebook page last month. He captioned it simply, My wife ke sath.