A particular NIA court docket on Wednesday sentenced Kashmiri separatist chief Yasin Malik to life imprisonment in a terror funding case. Special Judge Praveen Singh at Delhi’s Patiala House Court additionally imposed a positive of over Rs 10 lakh on Malik, who had earlier pleaded responsible to all the costs, together with these below the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
Earlier in the present day, demanding loss of life penalty for Malik, the National Investigation Agency had informed Special Judge Praveen Singh in in-chamber proceedings that Malik was answerable for the Kashmiri exodus for the reason that early Nineties. On the opposite hand, the amicus curiae appointed by the court docket to help Malik, sought minimal punishment, i.e., life imprisonment within the matter.
On the purpose of sentence, information company PTI quoted sources saying that Malik submitted that he wouldn’t “beg” for mercy, and that court docket might determine at its discretion.
Malik had on May 10 informed the court docket that he was not contesting the costs levelled in opposition to him that included sections 16 (terrorist act), 17 (elevating funds for the terrorist act), 18 (conspiracy to commit terrorist act), and 20 (being member of terrorist gang or organisation) of the UAPA and sections 120-B (legal conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the IPC.
The court docket had, in the meantime, formally framed the costs in opposition to Kashmiri separatist leaders together with Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate, Shabbir Shah, Masarat Alam, Md Yusuf Shah, Aftab Ahmad Shah, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Khan, Md Akbar Khanday, Raja Mehrajuddin Kalwal, Bashir Ahmad Bhat, Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Abdul Rashid Sheikh, and Naval Kishore Kapoor.
The cost sheet was additionally filed in opposition to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, who’ve been declared proclaimed offenders (PO) within the case.
Malik has been sentenced as follows:
Section 120 B IPC — 10 years, Rs 10,000 positive
Section 121A — 10 years, Rs 10,000 positive
Section 13 UAPA — 5 years
Section 15 UAPA — 10 years
Section 17 UAPA — life imprisonment, positive 10 lakh
Section 18 UAPA — 10 years, Rs 10,000 positive
Section 20 UAPA — 10 years, Rs 10,000 positive
Section 38, 39 UAPA — 5 years, Rs 5,000 positive
NIA chargesheet in terror funding case
The NIA, in its chargesheet, had claimed that numerous terrorist organisations reminiscent of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Jammu, and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and so on., incited violence within the Valley and carried out assaults on civilians and safety forces with the help of Pakistani spy company ISI.
The central probe company additionally alleged that in 1993, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) was fashioned to provide a political entrance to secessionist actions.
The NIA cost sheet submitted earlier than the court docket that the central authorities obtained credible data that Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Amir of Jammat-ud-Dawah, and the secessionist and separatist leaders together with the members of the Hurriyat Conference have been appearing in connivance with energetic militants of proscribed terrorist organizations like HM, LeT, and so on. for elevating, receiving and gathering funds domestically and overseas via numerous unlawful channels together with hawala.
The NIA additionally alleged that this was carried out for funding separatist and terrorist actions in Jammu and Kashmir and as such, they’ve entered into a bigger conspiracy for inflicting disruption within the valley by the use of pelting stones on safety forces, systematically burning colleges, harm to public property and waging conflict in opposition to India.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”