‘Main Shooter’: Eyewitness Identifies Yasin Malik In IAF Killing Case

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New Delhi: A crucial eyewitness, former IAF staffer Rajwar Umeshwar Singh, on Thursday identified JKLF chief Yasin Malik as the main shooter firing at Indian Air Force personnel in Srinagar in 1990.

Four IAF personnel, including a squadron leader, were killed and 22 injured on January 25, 1990, at Rawalpora on the outskirts of Srinagar.

Rajwar Umeshwar Singh, a former IAF staffer and a witness for the prosecution, identified Malik who was produced before the court through video from Delhiโ€™s Tihar Jail where he has been incarcerated for several years.

โ€œThis is an important development in the caseโ€ฆ The prosecution witness has identified Malik as the man behind the shooting,โ€ said Senior Public Prosecutor for CBI Monika Kohli.ย ย 

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