A particular courtroom in Jammu on Monday ‘closed’ banned JKLF chief Yasin Malik’s proper to cross-examine a main witness in a 1990 case associated to the killing of 4 IAF personnel, together with squadron chief Ravi Khanna, after he refused to take action by means of videoconference mentioned a lawyer. Malik, who’s in Delhi’s Tihar Jail after being convicted in a terror-funding case and has been demanding that he be allowed to cross-examine witnesses bodily within the Jammu courtroom, was current in courtroom just about.

He was requested whether or not he wish to study VK Sharma, a main witness within the case. Malik refused and reiterated his stand that he wish to bodily query Sharma in courtroom, mentioned Monika Kohli, senior further advocate common and CBI counsel.

“However, the accused did not do that following which the court closed his right to cross-examine,” Kohli instructed reporters. Sharma had recognized Malik earlier than the examiner-in-chief of the courtroom in addition to the CBI as one of many terrorists concerned within the killing of 4 IAF personnel on the outskirts of Srinagar on January 25, 1990.

Kohli knowledgeable the courtroom that the Union residence ministry had handed an order barring Malik from shifting out of Tihar jail for one yr from December 22, 2022 due to pending NIA instances in opposition to him.

Malik has been chargesheeted within the case together with six others. The costs have been framed in opposition to the accused in 2020, 20 years after CBI filed the chargesheet earlier than a delegated TADA courtroom in Jammu.