Srinagar/New Delhi: National Investigation Agency (Govt of India’s top probing agency) has moved to the Delhi High Court, seeking a death sentence for JKLF (Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front) Chief and Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik.
The Trial Court awarded double life imprisonment to Yasin Malik in a militancy funding case last year.
NIA in its appeal stated that the crime committed by such dreaded militant, where due to their ‘act of war’, the nation has lost its valuable troopers and has perpetrated irreparable grief not only to the family members of the troopers but to the entire nation.
NIA stated that the respondent/accused over decades has been indulging and spearheading militant activities in the valley and with the help of dreaded foreign militant organisations, having interest inimical to India, has been masterminding, planning, engineering and executing armed rebellion in the valley in an attempt to usurp the sovereignty and integrity of India.
NIA in its appeal before Delhi HC further stated that the ofences committed by the respondent accused are ex-facie acts of “external aggression”, brazenly planned and executed by “acts of waging war against the nation” whereby “internal disturbance” was created through raising and using trained armed militia within the state and by helping trained militants, raised in enemy states, to infiltrate the borders of India to participate and catalyse such internal disturbances.
The matter is listed before Delhi HC’s Division Bench of Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Talwant Singh.
The hearing is to be held on May 29, 2023.
(Agencies)
