New Delhi:
JKLF chief Yasin Malik in jail said in the Supreme Court on Friday that he was a “political leader and terrorist” and claimed that seven Prime Ministers were engaged in conversation with him in the past.
While appearing through video-conferencing before a bench by Justice Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, Malik referred to the presentation of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the CBI, that the terrorist was also pictures with Hafiz Saeed and it is as an acted music. Terrorist organizations under UAPA.
He said, “During the dispensation during the Prime Ministers, PV Narasimha Rao, HD Deve Gowda, Indra Kumar Gujral, Atal Bihari Vajpeya, Dr. Manmohan Singh and even under Prime Minister Narendra Modi have started work for their second time under the first five years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They have started work for their second time. The struggle ending.” Mehta argued that there was no relevance of the struggle in the present case.
The bench said that it was not postponing the merits of the case and only deciding whether it should be allowed to cross almost witnesses.
Malik said that he was responding to the CBI argument that he could not physically produce before the Jammu court as he was a “dreaded terrorist”.
“The objection of the CBI is that I am a security threat. I am responding to this. I am not a terrorist and only a political leader. Seven PMs are engaged with me. There is not a single cedar against me and my organization, supporting or providing any kind of hideout to any militant.
The apex court refused to appear physically in some cases being tried against him in Jammu, but asked him to investigate almost witnesses from Tihar Jail.
The order came in a case where the CBI has demanded the transfer of tests in the kidnapping of Rubia Saeed in 1989, daughter of former Union Minister Mufti Mohammad Saeed, and 1990 Srinagar shootout case, from Jammu to New Delhi.
The CBI challenged the order of a Jammu trial court on 20 September 2022, directed to direct Lifer Malik before cross-examining the Cross-Eykatha prosecution witnesses in the kidnapping case.
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