Highlights
- Top Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik known as off his hunger strike.
- He is at present lodged in the Tihar jail and had began his hunger strike on July 22.
- He alleged that his case was not being investigated correctly.
Yasin Malik information: Top Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik who’s at present lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail, has known as off his hunger strike that had began on July 22. He did so after he was given an assurance by Director General (DG) of Delhi Prisons Sandeep Goel that his issues have been forwarded to senior authorities. He had began the hunger strike alleging that his case was not being investigated correctly.
He was admitted to Delhi’s RML Hospital on July 26, following a fluctuation in blood stress as a result of hunger strike. He was discharged on July 29, however nonetheless refused to eat something. He has now deferred his hunger strike for 2 months on the request of Sandeep Goel, the jail officers mentioned.
The 56-year-old chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) is serving a life sentence in a terror-funding case. The DG has conveyed to Malik that the calls for raised by him have been despatched to the authorities involved and he shall be knowledgeable of the choice on the identical, mentioned a senior jail official.
“On my request, convict Yasin Malik, who was on hunger strike in Tihar Jail since July 22 has today (Monday) evening, discontinued his fasting,” Goel mentioned.
The separatist leader, who’s saved in solitary confinement in a high-risk cell in Tihar’s jail quantity 7, was shifted to the jail’s Medical Investigation (MI) room the place he was being given IV fluids, the officers mentioned.
Malik had submitted a letter to the docs on the hospital, saying he didn’t wish to be handled.
