Besides the life term, Special Judge Praveen Singh awarded varying jail terms for various offences under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and the Indian Penal Code to Yasin Malik, the chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). All the sentences will run concurrently.
The quantum of punishment for the offences in the terror funding case, was pronounced amid tight security at the Patiala House Court. During the course of the hearing, Malik said: "I will not beg for anything. The case is before this court and I leave it on the court to decide it."
Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition were recovered from the encounter site in Brar and all the recovered materials have been taken into case records for further investigation.
Terrorist shot and injured Kashmiri Pandit at Chowgam, Shopian.
Kashmiri Pandits held special prayers at the Mata Sharika Devi temple. The temple is situated on a hillock called the 'Hari Parbat' in the middle of old city of Srinagar.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday attacked the BJP for "doing politics" over Kashmiri Pandits' exodus, asking how many of them the party had been able to relocate to the valley. Watch Muqabla to know why there is so much politics revolving around a single movie.
The International Commission for Human Rights and Religious freedom (ICHRRF) exhorts other human rights organizations, international bodies and governments to step up to the plate and officially acknowledge these atrocities as an act of genocide.
The petition, filed by NGO 'We the Citizens', has also sought directions to conduct a census of Hindus and Sikhs, who have been victims or survivors of "genocide" in Jammu and Kashmir and are now residing in different parts of India and also their rehabilitation.
'The Kashmir Files' has been declared tax-free in several states including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
Farooq says, he is ready to face commission for probe into killings of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990. Pakistan harps on Kashmir at OIC meet, while UAE, Saudi officials attend investors summit in Jammu.Watch Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma.
Leaving the grand old party, Vikramaditya Singh said that his position on Jammu and Kashmir does not align with that of the Congress.
The Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora has come up with the proposal amid the nationwide attention the displaced community has been receiving of late following the release of 'The Kashmir Files', a film by Vivek Agnihotri which highlights the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits.
It has been 32 years but Kashmiri Pandits have not been able to return to their homeland. Over three decades after the horrific exodus, several Pandit families are still living in migrant camps of Jammu.
Three Hindu youths were gravely injured in a knife attack while they were exiting the cinema hall after watching the movie, 'The Kashmir Files'. The incident took place in Fazilnagar in Kushinagar district.
'The Kashmir Files' -- film based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir valley released on March 11, continues to draw political fire. The latest one to comment on the movie is former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, son of Farooq Abdullah, former J&K CM. Why this debate started and what is the truth? Watch Kurukshetra to know more
The National Conference on Friday broke its silence on 'The Kashmir Files' and said the movie was far from the truth as the movie makers have ignored the sacrifices of the Muslims and Sikhs who had also suffered from militancy.
The film was produced and released to "cover up and divert the injustice done to the people of Kashmir" and to distort the unsubstantiated slanderous allegations that the Pandits who lived like brothers and with the Muslims in that state were tortured, he alleged.
Demanding reconstruction of temples in the Valley, Mahant Balak Das said: "After the exact number of temples destroyed in Kashmir is known, their reconstruction should be done with immediate effect."
Farooq Abdullah called for appointing an independent judicial inquiry commission to look into the events. That will show who was responsible. He also urged the Union government to take urgent steps for the resettlement of Kashmiri Pandits.
On Tuesday, while addressing the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the film makers for ‘revealing the truth’.
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