NIA requests Delhi HC to hear Yasin Malik terror funding case away from public eye

Yasin represents himself before the Delhi HC and appears via video conference from Tihar jail.

The request came as the NIA sought an adjournment in the case on Monday, to respond to the claims made by the separatist leader in an affidavit submitted to Delhi HC in a sealed cover in August.

Justice Chaudhary orally remarked that it will consider the NIA’s request. The bench has now posted the matter for consideration on January 28 next year.

Yasin, while consenting to the NIA’s request for adjournment, requested that his case be taken up at the earliest. He orally told the court, “Meri ek hi request hai, ek shaks ko psychological torture mein rakhna… toh jald se jald suniye isse please (I’ve only one request, it is psychological torture to keep a person imprisoned, so please hear my matter at the earliest).”

Yasin, in his affidavit, is learnt to have said that he was encouraged by the state to keep the peace track alive in Jammu and Kashmir, claiming that he was actively engaged by seven Prime Ministers in the past and also held talks with the RSS leadership and two Shankaracharyas.

Yasin, who is in Tihar Jail since 2019, had submitted the affidavit in a sealed cover after the NIA pleaded to enhance his life imprisonment to death penalty in the terror funding case.

He is learnt to have accused the state of attempting to erase the history of engagement, and claimed meetings with PMs, political leaders, intel operatives, RSS leaders and journalists.

Denying his role in terror funding, Yasin, it is learnt, had said that the NIA could not produce evidence in this regard and he was being made a scapegoat.

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