Yasin Malik begins hunger strike at Tihar jail

New Delhi, July 23

Chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Yasin Malik, who is serving life term for cases including funding terrorism, has begun a hunger strike inside the Tihar jail, prison officials said on Saturday.

Malik, who is lodged in jail number 7 of the Tihar prison, has alleged that his case is not being investigated properly as he commenced his hunger strike on July 22.

Malik, who was arrested shortly after the JKLF was banned in 2019 was on May 19 this year convicted by an NIA court in terror funding cases and sentenced to life imprisonment on May 25. The NIA court while sentencing Malik to life term also imposed on him a fine of Rs 10 lakh. He told the court that he did not contest the charges brought against him.

On July 15 this year, Rubaiya Sayeed, the sister of Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti, identified Malik in connection with her kidnapping by JKLF militants on December 8, 1989. ANI

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