- Title: Indian court orders life in jail for top Kashmiri separatist
- Date: 25th May 2022
- Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (MAY 25, 2022) (ANI - No use India) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** ENTRANCE OF PATIALA COURT SIGNBOARD READING (English and Hindi): "PATIALA HOUSE COURT" POLICE PERSONNEL ON GUARD OUTSIDE COURT SECURITY PERSONNEL ESCORTING CHAIRMAN, JAMMU KASHMIR LIBERATION FRONT (JKLF), SEPARATIST PARTY, YASIN MALIK TO COURT POLICE PERSONNEL ON GUARD OUTSIDE COURT SECURITY PERSONNEL ESCORTING MALIK AS HE LEAVES COURT (SOUNDBITE) (English) ADVOCATE OF ACCUSED, AKHAND PRATAP SINGH, SAYING: "As he was planning to plead guilty, I tried to convince him to contest the trial but he has already made up his mind. So, in view of that whatever the best legal consequences... He was told about all the consequences which he was supposed to face once he plead guilty and all the things were told to him. Today, the matter has been decided and he is sentenced for...120b (of Indian Penal Code which deals with criminal conspiracy)...he has been punished with 10 years and $128.83 fine for 121 IPC (Indian Penal Code, which deals with waging or attempting to wage war)." SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (MAY 25, 2022) (ANI - No use India) PROTESTERS SLOGANEERING WOMEN PROTESTERS SLOGANEERING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SLOGANEERING WOMEN CLAPPING AS THEY PROTEST PROTESTER RAISING SLOGANS SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (FILE-FEBRUARY 14, 2011) (ANI - No use India) (SD) (4:3) MALIK ADDRESSING NEWSER CAMERAMAN TAKING PHOTOGRAPH MALIK ADDRESSING NEWSER SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (FILE-OCTOBER 03, 2010) (ANI - No use India) (SD) (4:3) VARIOUS OF MALIK TALKING TO DIPLOMAT
- Embargoed: 8th June 2022 16:12
- Keywords: India Kashmir NIA New Delhi Pakistan Yasin Malik court house protest raids sentence separatist terror funding
- Location: SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR/NEW DELHI, INDIA/INTERNET
- City: SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR/NEW DELHI, INDIA/INTERNET
- Country: India
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
- Reuters ID: LVA001GDHOUA7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL
An Indian court on Wednesday ordered life in jail for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik for funding "terrorist" activities and other charges, a judge said on Wednesday (May 25), prompting street protests outside the politician's residence.
Malik, head of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), earlier told a special court designated for the National Investigation Agency that he had been following Gandhian principles and non-violent politics in Kashmir after giving up arms in the 1990s.
Mainly Hindu India has been fighting an armed militancy in Kashmir, also claimed by Pakistan, for decades.
"Life imprisonment sentence to the convict, Yasin Malik," Special Judge Parveen Singh said in the court in New Delhi.
Malik's wife Mushaal Hussein Mullick said the sentencing was illegitimate.
"Verdict in minutes by Indian kangaroo court," she wrote on Twitter. "The iconic leader will never surrender."
In Kashmir's main city of Srinagar, police fired tear gas and pellets to disperse stone-pelting protesters outside Malik's residence.
Malik was convicted last week. Malik was one of the pioneers of the militant struggle in Kashmir. In 1988, he walked through the mountains to the Pakistani side of Kashmir, got training and returned to fight the Indian army.
Malik first crossed into the Pakistan-side of the disputed Himalayan region in 1988 to launch a militant movement against Indian rule but gave up the armed struggle in 1995 and decided to work politically for the "freedom" of Kashmir.
He gave up militancy in 1994 to agitate peacefully for self-rule, but still bears the scars of his militant life -- most notably from jumping from a fifth-floor window to escape capture by Indian security forces in 1990. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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