As jailed JKLF chief Yasin Malik’s surprise presence in the Supreme Court without “court permission” created furore; the Tihar Jail administration has suspended four officers including one Deputy Superintendent, and two Assistant Superintendents.
On Friday, Malik walked into the court room after being escorted by armed security personnel without the court’s permission.
Malik’s unauthorized presence in the courtroom during a hearing left the court and government officials surprised.
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta that there was a procedure for high-risk convicts to be allowed into the courtroom to argue their case personally.
The bench further said that it had not granted him permission or passed any order allowing him to argue his case in person.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta wrote to Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla over the "serious security lapse".
“A convict in a terrorism funding case with known connections to Pakistani terror organizations, could have potentially escaped, been forcibly taken away, or even killed due to the breach in security protocols,” Mehta said in the letter.
He further pointed to an order passed by the Ministry of Home Affairs with regard to Malik under section 268 of the Criminal Code of Procedure which prevents the jail authorities to bring the said convict out of the jail premises for security reasons.
The Delhi Prison department ordered a detailed inquiry into the incident and will submit its report in the next three days.
