India’s prime anti-terrorism investigation company Friday once more sought the dying sentence for Kashmiri independence chief Muhammad Yasin Malik after he was given life in jail, official sources mentioned.
Malik, 57, chief of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Entrance (JKLF), was sentenced to life imprisonment final yr in a terror funding case after his refusal to just accept a government-appointed lawyer or to defend himself in opposition to the fees.
The courtroom turned down a plea by the Nationwide Investigation Company for a dying sentence, saying capital punishment was for against the law that “shocks the collective consciousness” of society.
On Friday, the NIA petitioned the Excessive Courtroom in New Delhi once more looking for a dying sentence for Malik, a senior safety official in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir instructed AFP.
The petition is due for listening to on Monday, authorized information web site Bar and Bench reported.
Malik was repeatedly jailed, spending 14 years in jail the place he claimed he was tortured, and was lastly arrested in 2018, months earlier than New Delhi cancelled the occupied area’s particular standing, imposing a lockdown and communications blockade lasting months.
