Rubaiya was kidnapped close to Srinagar’s Lal Ded Hospital on December 8, 1989, and free of captivity 5 days in a while December 13 after the then VP Singh authorities, supported by the BJP on the Centre, launched 5 terrorists in trade for her secure return. Her father was the Union residence minister on the time.
Malik is at current lodged in Tihar Jail and he was current within the courtroom by videoconferencing. He was arrested in early 2019 in reference to the 2017 terror-funding case registered by the NIA and was sentenced to life imprisonment in Might this 12 months.
That is the primary time Rubaiya was requested to seem within the case. Rubaiya, who stays in Tamil Nadu, is listed as a prosecution witness by the CBI, which took over investigations into the case in early 1990. The case had gone chilly and was revived after Malik was picked up by the NIA on costs of terror-funding.
In January final 12 months, the CBI framed costs in opposition to 10 individuals, together with Malik, for Rubaiya’s abduction. Apart from Malik, others charged within the case are Ali Mohammed Mir, Mohammed Zaman Mir, Iqbal Ahmad Gandroo, Javed Ahmad Mir, Mohammed Rafiq Pahloo, Manzoor Ahmed Sofi, Wajahat Bashir, Mehraj-ud-Din Sheikh and Showkat Ahmad Bakshi.
Throughout the investigation, Ali Mohammad Mir, Zaman Mir and Iqbal Gandroo voluntarily confessed earlier than a Justice of the Peace to their position within the abduction of Rubaiya and 4 others made confessional statements earlier than CBI’s superintendent of police.
Two days in the past, Malik sought the courtroom’s permission for his bodily look in order that he may cross-question the witnesses within the case. If denied the possibility, he threatened to sit down on an indefinite starvation strike within the jail.
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