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Court Rejects Yasin Malik’s Plea For Physical Appearance, Summons Rubaiya Sayeed

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Jammu: A CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) court, based in Jammu issued a bailable warrant against Rubaiya Sayeed, after she did not appear for her cross—examination in 1989 kidnapping case and rejected JKLF (Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front) Chief Yasin Malik’s plea for physical appearance saying, there were directions from the High Court to produce all the accused in all the cases through virtual mode.

On 15 July, Rubaiya Sayeed (daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed in 1989) identified Malik as one of the kidnappers in 1989. It is pertinent to mention that Rubaiya was kidnapped by JKLF when she was returning home from her medical college where she was an intern and demanded release of five JKLF militants as ransom.

Advocate Monika Kohli, special public prosecutor for CBI, said that Rubaiya Sayeed did not appear in the TADA court for her cross examination by the accused.

“The Court has issued a bailable warrant against her and directed her to remain present on the next date of hearing scheduled on September 21,” she said.

Rubaiya was also listed as a prosecution witness by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which took over the probe in January 2019.

Recently, NIA (National Investigation Agency) court sentenced the separatist leader Malik with double life imprisonment in a terror funding case after he did not contested terror charges framed against him.

Malik had recently demanded that he be allowed to appear physically before the Jammu court alleging that his two cases (Kidnapping Rubaiya and the killing of Indian Air Force personnel) weren’t being investigated properly.

He also observed a 10-day hunger strike from July 22 after the Centre did not respond to his plea for allowing him to physically appearance.

He ended his hunger strike at the Director-General (DG) of Prisons’ request stating that his concerns were forwarded to the senior authorities, as per the prison officials.

He was previously admitted to Ram Manohar Lohia hospital due to fluctuations in his blood pressure following his hunger strike.