Jay Mala, acting as a legal aid advocate, secured the release of Riaz Ahmed, proving he was still a minor when he was falsely imprisoned in Jammu and Kashmir.
[9] Chief justice P. N. Bhagwati quashed the detention stating the prisoner was a school boy protesting for student rights and not as the police had falsely accused him of being an adult threatening grievous bodily harm armed with a knife.
The judges established that a two years margin of error be applied in judicial proceedings to radiological and orthopaedic test results used to determine age in favor of the accused.
[4] Jay Mala filed a case against the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, including then Chief Minister Ghulam Mohammad Shah as a respondent in order to find her husband and set him free.
[17] In the case judge Reddy also ruled on the politicized nature of her husband's false imprisonment, stating that the two police officers who acted with "mischievous or malicious intent" were mere subordinates and that he did "not have the slightest doubt that the responsibility lies elsewhere and with the higher echelons of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir.
[23] She highly criticized the government's handling of the Citizenship Amendment Act protests,[23] and gross atrocities committed under the NRC, where thousands of allegedly stateless persons were being imprisoned in cramped detention centres in India, under inhumane conditions.
On 9 February 2022, she was Chairperson of the Panthers Party Working Committee, that passed resolution that the next legislative assembly elections will be contested under leadership of former education minister Harsh Dev Singh.
[6] Jay Mala's television interview in Jammu and Kashmir went viral on Twitter, receiving over 450,000 views in 4 days,[26] and was covered by national news in India on 26 March 2022.
[36] Her body was kept ten days in the mortuary while family members fought for control over it and the political party she founded,[37] and her only child Ankit Love was banned from entering India.
[43] On 19 July 2023, at the Senior Superintendent of Police’s office in Jammu, hundreds of Panthers Party protesters led by former cabinet minister Harsh Dev Singh demanded arrest of those accused of assassinating Jay Mala, as well as stealing money from her accounts and burning down a property belonging to her husband.