New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea seeking directions for removing the graves of terrorists Mohammad Afzal Guru and Mohammad Maqbool Bhatt from Tihar Jail premises here to "prevent glorification".

The two terrorists were sentenced to death and executed in Tihar Jail.

"No law or rule prohibits cremation or burial inside the jail premises,"a bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said and ordered that the PIL is “dismissed as withdrawn”.

Sensing the high court’s indication, the petitioners’ counsel had urged the court to allow him to withdraw the petition and re-file it with certain data.

“For approaching the court for a relief in a PIL, you have to show us any violation of constitutional rights, fundamen

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