Mehbooba Mufti, president of the PDP, said on Saturday that the case of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik should be reexamined as a result of even prime minister assassins are pardoned in a democracy like India.
Her remarks got here a day after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) referred to as for the separatist chief, who was given a life sentence by a Delhi court docket in a terror funding case final 12 months, to be executed.
Mehbooba additionally lashed out at Altaf Bukhari, a former cupboard member and member of her occasion, claiming that these cheering for Malik’s hanging posed a severe risk to “our collective rights.”
Bukhari, the chief of Apni Party, mentioned obstacle measures should be taken in opposition to these making an attempt to undermine the nation’s safety.
“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 are a grave threat to our collective rights,” Mehbooba mentioned on Twitter.
The investidation company NIA on Friday moved towards the Delhi High Court trying for capital punishment for the Kashmiri separatist chief, declaring that not giving the death penalty to such a “dreaded terrorist” will end result within the miscarriage of justice.
The NIA’s plea is scheduled to be heard by a bench composed of Justices Talwant Singh and Siddharth Mridul on May 29.
“NIA’s plea demanding the death penalty for Yasin Malik highlights the urgency to handle militant funding in Jammu and Kashmir.
We should guarantee justice prevails and deterrent measures ought to be taken in opposition to those that try to threaten our nation’s safety,” Bukhari wrote on Twitter.
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