JKLF leader, Yasin Malik, who was on hunger strike in Tihar Jail for the last 10 days discontinued his fasting on Monday evening after he was informed that his demands have been conveyed to the authorities concerned, prison officials said, as per a PTI report.
Pertinently, Malik began an indefinite hunger strike on July 22, after the Centre did not respond to his plea that he be allowed to physically appear in a Jammu court hearing the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case in which he is an accused.
The 56-year-old chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) is serving a life sentence in a militancy-funding case.
He has deferred his hunger strike for two months at the request of the Director General (DG) of Delhi Prisons Sandeep Goel, the officials said.
The DG has conveyed to Malik that the demands raised by him have been sent to the authorities concerned and he will be informed of the decision on the same, said a senior jail official.
Goel said that Malik discontinued his fasting on Monday evening on his request.
Malik was admitted to the RML hospital here, on the fifth day of his hunger strike, last month following a fluctuation in blood pressure. After being discharged from the hospital and returning to the prison, he refused to eat anything.
Malik, who is kept in solitary confinement in a high-risk cell in Tihar’s prison number 7, was shifted to the prison’s Medical Investigation (MI) room where he was being given IV fluids, the officials said.
Malik had also submitted a letter to the doctors at hospital, wherein he stated that he didn’t want to be treated