The National Investigation Agency of India has moved to the supreme court seeking the death penalty for JKLF leader Mohammed Yasin Malik, Live Law reported.
Malik was sentenced to life by a court in New Delhi on militancy charges in the month of May 2022.
Malik had told the court that he was not contesting the charges leveled against him that included sections 16 (militant act), 17 (raising funds for militant act), 18 (conspiracy to commit militant act) and 20 (being member of militant gang or organisation) of the UAPA and sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the IPC.
Yasin Malik, 54, is lodged in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail after he was arrested under the Public Safety Act in March 2019, but a month later his custody was shifted to National Investigation Agency (NIA)