Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik has been formally arrested by the National Investigative Agency (NIA) in connection with 2017 terror financing and terror conspiracy case.
The NIA produced Yasin Malik before a Delhi court in connection with a case related to funding of separatists and terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. The court has sent him on an NIA remand till April 22.
Malik was produced before special judge Rakesh Syal. He was, on Tuesday, shifted to Tihar Jail after the NIA secured his production remand in connection with the terror funding case.
Malik, who was arrested last month and shifted to Kot Balwal Jail in Jammu, faced questions from the NIA related to funding of his organisation.
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court had reserved its judgment on a plea of the CBI for reopening three-decade-old cases in which Malik was an accused.
The JKLF chief is facing charges of kidnapping and murder for being allegedly involved in abducting Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in 1989 and killing of four Indian Air Force personnel in the early part of 1990.
NIA had approached a special court in Jammu, seeking Malik's remand for custodial interrogation in the terror-funding case.
The NIA probe seeks to identify the chain of players behind the financing of terrorist activities, pelting of stones on security forces, burning down of schools and damaging of government establishments.
The case also names Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah, the front for the banned Lashker-e-Taiba, as an accused. It names organisations such as Hurriyat Conference factions led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the Hizbul Mujahideen and the Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
The JKLF was recently banned under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
