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Sara Abdullah Pilot’s petition challenging the detention of her brother and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) will come up for hearing on Friday before a Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra.

The other judge on the newly constituted Bench is Justice Indira Banerjee.

Justice Mohan M Shantanagoudar had on Wednesday recused himself from her petition without assigning any reason for his recusal when it came up for hearing before a three-judge Bench of Justice NV Ramana, Justice MM Shantanagoudar and Justice Sanjiv Khanna.

Terming her brother’s detention under the PSA as “manifestly illegal”, Sara had, on Monday, moved the Supreme Court, seeking the quashing of the February 5 order detaining him under the stringent law.