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New Delhi, May 24
Kashmiri separatist chief Yasin Malik was on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court docket. Malik had earlier pleaded responsible to all the fees, together with these beneath the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), in a terror funding case.
The NIA had advised Special Judge Praveen Singh in an in-chamber proceedings that Malik was chargeable for the Kashmiri exodus. The amicus curiae appointed by the court docket to help Malik, had sought minimal punishment, i.e., life imprisonment within the matter.
The court docket had on May 19 convicted Malik and had directed the NIA authorities to evaluate his monetary state of affairs to find out the quantity of wonderful more likely to be imposed.
Malik had on May 10 advised the court docket that he was not contesting the fees levelled towards him that included sections 16 (terrorist act), 17 (elevating funds for the terrorist act), 18 (conspiracy to commit terrorist act), and 20 (being member of terrorist gang or organisation) of the UAPA and sections 120-B (prison conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the IPC.
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