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TADA court frames charges against Yasin Malik, 9 others in Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case

Jammu
January 12, 2021

A special TADA court has framed charges against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chief Mohammad Yasin Malik and nine others in a 31-year-old kidnapping case involving Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

Malik is presently lodged in Tihar jail, Delhi after he was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in April 2019 in connection with a terror funding case, a month after his group was banned by the Central Government. In March last year, the special TADA court had framed charges against the JKLF Chief and six others in another case related to the gunning down of four IAF personnel on the outskirts of Srinagar in January 1990.

Special TADA Judge Sunit Gupta on Monday ordered framing of charges against Malik and nine others - Ali Mohd Mir, Mohd Zaman Mir, Iqbal Ahmad Gandroo, Javed Ahmad Mir, Mohd Rafiq Pahloo, Manzoor Ahmed Sofi, Wajahat Bashir, Mehraj-ud-Din Sheikh and Showkat Ahmad Bakshi. The 10 are among two dozen accused named by the CBI in its charge sheet filed before the TADA court. Among the others, Mohammad Rafiq Dar and Mushtaq Ahmad Lone both top commanders of JKLF are dead and 12 others are absconding.

The absconders include Halima, Javed Iqbal Mir, Mohammad Yaqub Pandit, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Khursheed Ahmad Dar, Basharat Rehman Noori, Tariq Ashraf, Shafat Ahmad Shangloo, Manzoor Ahmad, Gulam Mohammad Taploo, Abdul Majeed Bhat and Nissar Ahmad Bhat. Rubaiya Sayeed was kidnapped by JKLF members on December 8, 1989, from Srinagar to ensure the release of their associates lodged in different jails.