Terror funding case: Court sentences Yasin Malik to life imprisonment

NEW DELHI: The NIA court in Delhi has awarded life imprisonment to Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik in a terror funding case. The court had earlier found Yasin Malik guilty in the case. The NIA had argued that Yasin Malik should be given the death penalty. The court-appointed amicus curiae had demanded that Malik be sentenced to life imprisonment, the smallest possible sentence.

The NIA had found that Malik was involved in the stoning of security forces in 89 places in 2016. Yasin Malik was arrested in 2019 in connection with the case. Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar - e - Toiba, and Syed Salahuddin, the head of Hizbul Mujahideen, are accused in the case. Security has been beefed up in Srinagar following the verdict. Security forces have been deployed in the city to prevent violence.