NIA seeks death penalty for Yasin Malik

Story by  ATV | Posted by  Nakul Shivani • 10 Months ago
NIA has sought the death penalty for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik
NIA has sought the death penalty for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik

 

New Delhi

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) moved the Delhi High Court on Friday seeking the death penalty for Yasin Malik, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and a prominent Kashmiri separatist leader.

The division bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh is scheduled to hear the petition on May 29.

In May 2022, Malik, who has been convicted in connection with a 2017 terror funding case, was sentenced to life by a special NIA court here.

Special Judge Praveen Singh had pronounced the verdict under relevant sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act which will be concurrent and it will run till life.

The quantum of punishment for the offences in the terror funding case, was pronounced last year amid tight security at the Patiala House Courts.

During the course of the hearing in the trial court last year, Malik had said: "I will not beg for anything. The case is before this court and I leave it on the court to decide it."

"If I have been involved in any terrorist activity or violence in 28 years, if Indian Intelligence proves this, then I will also retire from politics. I will accept the hanging... with seven Prime Ministers, I have worked," he had told the court.

The NIA told the court during the hearing that the accused is responsible for the Kashmiri Pandits' exodus from the Valley. The probe agency had also argued for the death sentence for Malik.

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On the other hand, the amicus curiae had sought life imprisonment as a minimum punishment in the case.