The Supreme Court Today (March 7) postponed the hearing on transferring Yasin Malik’s trials from Jammu to Delhi; Malik attended virtually and requested scheduling after Ramzan.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday postponed the hearing to April 4 on the CBI’s request to shift the trials of JKLF leader Yasin Malik and other accused from Jammu and Kashmir to Delhi.
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan deferred the matter as Solicitor General Tushar Mehta was not available.
Yasin Malik joined the hearing through video call. He asked the judges to schedule the next hearing after Ramzan, and the court agreed.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had instructed Malik to attend the hearing via video call on March 7.
The court was informed that the Jammu court had a “well-equipped” video-conferencing system to enable Malik’s online presence.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) wants to move the trials in two serious cases—the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed in 1989 and the Srinagar shootout of 1990—from Jammu to Delhi.
Previously, the Supreme Court asked the registrar general of Jammu and Kashmir High Court to arrange proper video-conferencing in Jammu’s special court for hearings involving Malik and others.
On December 18 last year, the Supreme Court gave two weeks to six accused persons to reply to the CBI’s request for transferring the trial to Delhi.
The cases involve the killing of four Indian Air Force personnel in Srinagar on January 25, 1990, and the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed on December 8, 1989. Malik, the chief of the banned JKLF, is accused in both these cases.
The Supreme Court was reviewing a plea by the CBI against a Jammu court order from September 20, 2022. That order had asked authorities to physically produce Malik in court to cross-examine witnesses in the kidnapping case.
Malik is currently in Tihar Jail serving a life sentence.
According to the CBI, Malik is a “threat to national security” and should not be taken outside Tihar Jail.
Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of former Union Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, was freed after five days when the government led by Prime Minister V P Singh, supported by BJP, released five terrorists in exchange. Rubaiya now lives in Tamil Nadu. She is an important witness in the case, which the CBI started investigating in the early 1990s.
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Yasin Malik is currently lodged in Tihar Jail. A special NIA court had sentenced him to life imprisonment in May 2023 in a case related to terror funding.
Case Title:
Central Bureau of Investigation v. Mohd. Yasin Malik
[SLP(Crl) 5526-5527/2023]
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