NEW DELHI – National Investigation Agency on Wednesday arrested JKLF chiefYasin Malik in connection with a case related to the funding of terror andseparatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said here.
Malik was brought to the national capital Tuesday evening after a specialNIA court in Jammu gave the go ahead for his custodial interrogation by theprobe agency, they said.
The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief, who was shifted to Tihar jailunder police protection, was taken into preventive custody in February bythe Jammu and Kashmir police and shifted to Jammu’s Kot Balwal jail.
Malik, whose organisation JKLF was banned last month by the Centre, is alsofacing two CBI cases.
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These relate to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Saeed, daughter of then Unionhome minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, in 1989, and the killing of four IAFpersonnel in 1990.
The NIA registered a case on May 30, 2017 against separatist andsecessionist leaders, including unknown members of the Hurriyat Conference,who have been acting in connivance with active militants of proscribedterrorist organisations Hizbul Mujahideen, Dukhtaran-e-Millat,Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and other outfits and gangs.
