People’s Conference president Sajad Gani Lone on Tuesday mentioned that chief of the now banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Yasin Malik ought to get a good trial.

Lone’s feedback got here after Malik was recognized by Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of former dwelling minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, in her abduction case in 1989, earlier than a particular court docket in Jammu final week.

Malik, who’s present process life imprisonment in a terror-funding case, has mentioned that he will probably be happening a starvation strike from July 22 in Tihar jail if his calls for of a good trial and guaranteeing his bodily presence within the courts aren’t fulfilled.

Malik has moved an utility looking for his private look as trials in two different circumstances towards him — Rubaiya kidnapping and killing of 4 Indian Air Force officers — are happening.

“We might have a thousand disagreements with Yasin Malik, however he deserves a good trial. He deserves a trial the place he is ready to current his aspect,” Lone said on the sidelines of a function of his party.

Lone, a former separatist, had switched sides in 2009 and joined the pro-India politics by fighting parliamentary elections, a first separatist to do so in Kashmir after militancy erupted in the Valley in 1989.

He later made it to the state assembly and became a cabinet minister with the BJP support. When the Center had revoked Article 370 in 2019, Lone was detained for 360 days.

He also criticized Rubaiya’s sister and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti for saying that she was bound by law to participate in the identification process, which she could not ‘refuse’.

“She (Mehbooba) is an advocate of reconciliation that we need to talk to Pakistan, Salahuddin or militants. If I was at her place, I would have adopted the other model; that of Priyanka Gandhi, who forgave her father’s killers,” Lone said.

He said that in this case, it was a kidnapping. “Though it was wrong and we condemned that, in the spirit of reconciliation given that Malik is already under life imprisonment, the other way could have been adopted. I think the people of Kashmir should also see whether any mainstream party really wants reconciliation,” Lone added.

Rubaiya was kidnapped in December 1989 when her father, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, was the Union dwelling minister on the VP Singh-led National Front authorities.

She was kidnapped by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front on December 8, 1989, and launched on December 13. Five jailed militants had been launched to safe her protected return.

Rubaiya, who now lives in Chennai, appeared earlier than the particular court docket coping with circumstances below the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act after summons had been served to her. She recognized Malik by means of images, her lawyer Anil Sethi had mentioned on Friday.

On January 11, 2021, the TADA court docket had ordered that fees be framed towards Malik and 9 others in her abduction case.

Prominent well being knowledgeable joins People’s Conference

Former deputy director, well being, Dr Bashir Chalkoo from Uri joined the People’s Conference on Tuesday, giving a shot within the arm to the Sajad Lone-led outfit.

Chalkoo was welcomed into the occasion fold by the occasion president Lone at his residence at Churchlane in Srinagar together with many staff from the northern frontier tehsil of Uri, the occasion mentioned.

Lone mentioned that his occasion would massively profit from Chalkoo’s expertise in public life whose entry into the occasion fold signifies the ‘optimistic impression’ his occasion has made among the many individuals of J&Okay.