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Indian court awards life sentence to Kashmiri leader Yasin Malikt

The sentence was awarded in a terror financing case

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May 25, 2022 06:13 PM

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Indian court awards life sentence to Kashmiri leader Yasin Malikt

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New Delhi: An Indian court Wednesday sentenced Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik to life imprisonment in a terror funding case, the country's media reported.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had sought the death penalty for the Kashmiri separatist and chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), but the court awarded him two life imprisonments, according to the Times of India.

The special court in Delhi had convicted Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik on May 19 after Yasin had pleaded guilty to all the charges including the ones under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

Following the charges, the court directed Yasin to disclose all the sources of his income and declare all his assets by filing an affidavit.

The court also asked India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) to find out about Yasin's financial situation, so that it could decide the amount of fine to impose on him

Yasin had refused to accept the charges, including Section 16 (terrorist act), Section 17 (raising funds for a terrorist act), Section 18 (conspiracy to commit a terrorist act) and Section 20 (being a member of a terrorist gang or organization) of the UAPA and Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code.

The court had said that Yasin "had set up an elaborate structure and mechanism across the world to raise funds for carrying out terrorist and other unlawful activities in Jammu and Kashmir in the name of the 'freedom struggle'."