The Delhi High Court issued a notice to separatist chief Yasin Malik, who’s presently serving a life sentence, relating to the National Investigation Agency’s plea for Malik to obtain the death penalty in a case involving terror funding on Monday.
On August 9, a bench composed of Justices Talwant Singh and Siddharth Mridul additionally issued warrants for Malik’s look earlier than it.
On behalf of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Solicitor General Tushar Mehta made the case that the accused engaged in terrorist and secessionist actions and will obtain the death penalty as a result of this was a “rarest of rare” case.
“In view of the ground that Yasin Malik, sole respondent in this appeal, has inter alia pleaded guilty to a charge under section 121 IPC which provides for an alternate death sentence, we issue notice to him to be served through the jail superintendent,” the courtroom ordered.
It additionally stated, “Let warrants be issued for his production on the next hearing date.”
After discovering Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Malik responsible of numerous offenses underneath the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code, a trial courtroom sentenced Malik to life in jail on May 24, 2022.
Malik was discovered responsible and given a life sentence after pleading responsible to the costs, together with these introduced underneath the UAPA.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) argued in its request to the excessive courtroom for a rise within the death penalty that if “dreaded terrorists” who’ve pleaded responsible will not be sentenced to death, the sentencing coverage can be utterly eroded, and terrorists would have the ability to escape punishment.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) claimed {that a} life sentence was “ex-facie legally flawed and completely unsustainable” and that the trial courtroom’s conclusion that Malik’s crimes didn’t fall inside the class of the “rarest of the rare cases” for the grant of the death penalty was “not commensurate with the crime committed by terrorists when the nation and families of soldiers have suffered loss of life.”
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