Jammu: Former J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's daughter and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti's sister Rubaiya Sayeed along with three of her alleged kidnappers appeared in a special TADA court in Jammu in the 1989 kidnapping case today. Chairman of the banned separatist organization JKLF Yasin Malik, who is in Delhi's Tihar jail, after his conviction in an alleged terror funding case is among four accused in the kidnapping case.
CBI lawyer Monika Kohli told reporters that the court has posted the matter for October 20, when Yasin Malik, will be cross-examined in the case. On July 15 this year, Rubaiya Sayeed, the sister of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti and daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, reportedly identified Malik in connection with her kidnapping by JKLF militants on December 8, 1989. Malik had later gone on hunger strike demanding his physical appearance in court.
The TADA court issued production warrants to Tihar Jail authorities for Malik's physical appearance in the Jammu court on the said date, Kohli said. Malik, who was arrested shortly after the JKLF was banned in 2019, was on May 19 this year convicted by an NIA court in a terror funding case.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment on May 25. The NIA court while sentencing Malik also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh. Rubaiya was abducted in Srinagar on December 8, 1989, and freed from captivity after five days on December 13 after the then V P Singh government at the Centre, released five terrorists in exchange.
Apart from the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case, Malik is also facing charges in the case of the gunning down of four Indian Air Force (IAF) officials in January 1990 in Srinagar.
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