The National Investigation Agency (NIA) moved the Delhi High Court on Friday searching for the loss of life penalty for Yasin Malik, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and a distinguished Kashmiri separatist chief. The division bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh is scheduled to listen to the petition on May 29.
In May 2022, Malik, who has been convicted in reference to a 2017 terror funding case, was sentenced to life by a particular NIA court docket right here. Special Judge Praveen Singh had pronounced the decision below related sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act which will likely be concurrent and it’ll run until life. The quantum of punishment for the offences within the terror funding case, was pronounced final 12 months amid tight safety on the Patiala House Courts.
During the course of the listening to within the trial court docket final 12 months, Malik had stated: “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 instructed the court docket.
The NIA instructed the court docket throughout the listening to that the accused is chargeable for the Kashmiri Pandits` exodus from the Valley. The probe company had additionally argued for the loss of life sentence for Malik. On the opposite hand, the amicus curiae had sought life imprisonment at the least punishment within the case.
Malik had pleaded responsible within the matter earlier. In the earlier listening to, he instructed the court docket that he was not contesting the costs levelled towards him, together with part 16 (terrorist act), 17 (elevating funds for the terrorist act), 18 (conspiracy to commit terrorist act), and 20 (being member of a terrorist gang or organisation) of the UAPA and sections 120-B (legal conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code.
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