National Investigation Agency gets Yasin Malik’s custody till April 22

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday sent Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Yasin Malik to National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) custody till April 22 in connection with a case related to the funding of terror and separatist groups in the state. Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Syal, during in-chamber proceedings, allowed the NIA to question Malik for 12 days. The NIA on Wednesday arrested Malik, a day after he was shifted to Tihar Jail here from Jammu’s Kot Balwal Jail. The anti-terror agency’s move followed an order of a special NIA court in Jammu giving it go ahead for Malik’s custodial interrogation, an official said.

Malik was brought here from Jammu on an Air India flight on Tuesday evening, the official said. On March 7, Malik was booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) and put in Jammu jail. Under the PSA, any person can be kept in detention for two years without any judicial intervention. Malik has been facing two Central Bureau of Investigation cases and his organisation JKLF was banned last month by the Centre. These relate to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Saeed, daughter of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, in 1989, and the killing of four IAF personnel in 1990. (IANS)

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