SRINAGAR – Indian government on Friday banned the Yasin Malik-led JammuKashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) for promoting secessionism and channellingillegal funds to instigate terrorism in the state.

The development comes exactly a month after the separatist leader’s arreston February 22, Zee News has reported.

The decision to ban JKLFlinkwastaken in a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) chaired byPrime Minister Narendra Modi on March 22, which incidentally also happensto be the Pakistan Day or Pakistan Resolution Day.

Briefing the media, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba recalled how the JKLFwas involved in the kidnapping of Mehbooba Mufti’s sister Rubaiya Sayeed inDecember 1989 and the killing of four Indian Air Force personnel, besidesseveral other acts of terror. Gauba also noted JKLF’s role in “the exodusof Kashmiri Pandits” from the valley in 1990.

More than 37 FIRs have been registered by the Jammu and Kashmir Policeagainst JKLF, two cases, including the case of the murder of IAF personnel,were registered by CBI. It is also being investigated in several cases bythe National Investigation Agency.