By PTI
NEW DELHI: The NIA on Wednesday sought the demise penalty for convicted Kashmiri separatist chief Yasin Malik, who had earlier pleaded responsible of all costs, together with these beneath the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, in a terror funding case, court docket sources stated.
The company made the submission earlier than particular choose Praveen Singh, whereas the amicus curiae appointed by the court docket to help Malik sought life imprisonment, the minimal punishment within the matter.
Malik, in the meantime, informed the choose that he was leaving it to the court docket to determine the quantum of punishment. After listening to the arguments, the court docket reserved its order and is prone to pronounce it later within the day.
The court docket had on May 19 convicted Malik and had directed NIA authorities to evaluate his monetary scenario to find out the quantity of high quality prone to be imposed.
Malik had on May 10 informed the court docket that he was not contesting the costs levelled towards him that included part 16 (terrorist act), 17 (elevating funds for terrorist act), 18 (conspiracy to commit terrorist act) and 20 (being member of terrorist gang or organisation) of the UAPA and sections 120-B (felony conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the IPC.
The court docket had, in the meantime, formally framed the costs towards Kashmiri separatist leaders, together with Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate, Shabbir Shah, Masarat Alam, Md Yusuf Shah, Aftab Ahmad Shah, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Khan, Md Akbar Khanday, Raja Mehrajuddin Kalwal, Bashir Ahmad Bhat, Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, Shabir Ahmad Shah, Abdul Rashid Sheikh and Naval Kishore Kapoor.
The cost sheet was additionally filed towards Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, who’ve been declared proclaimed offenders (PO) within the case.
