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Srinagar, May 27, 2023 (PPI-OT): A day after the Indian Infamous National Investigation Agency (NIA) sought the death penalty for Yasin Malik, the People’s Democratic Party President, Mehbooba Mufti said, his case must be reviewed and reconsidered. Mehbooba Mufti said that the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik’s case must be reviewed and reconsidered as in a democracy like India even the assassins of a prime minister were pardoned.
Earlier, the NIA reached the High Court seeking the death penalty for Yasin Malik, who was awarded a life term by a trial court in New Delhi in a false funding case last year. Reacting to the remarks by Altaf Bukhari, Mehbooba Mufti, responding on Twitter, lashed out at her former party colleague and said those gleefully supporting Yasin Malik’s hanging were a grave threat to “our collective rights.”
“In a democracy like India where even the assassins of a PM were pardoned, the case of a political prisoner like Yasin Malik must be reviewed and reconsidered. The new political ikhwan gleefully supporting his hanging is a grave threat to our collective rights,” Mufti said on Twitter. The president of Apni Party had said that deterrent measures should be taken against those trying to threaten the country’s security. The plea by the NIA has been listed for hearing on Monday before a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh.
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