A day after the Indian infamous National Investiga-tion Agency (NIA) sought the death penalty for Yasin Malik, the Peoples Democratic Party Presi-dent, Mehbooba Mufti said, his case must be re-viewed 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, Me-hbooba 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 as-sassins 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 col-lective rights,” Mufti said on Twitter.
The president of Apni Party had said that deter-rent 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.—KMS
