New Delhi: Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik was convicted by a Delhi court in a terror funding case on May 19 after he pleaded guilty to all charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), in a terror funding case. Ahead of the quantum of punishment announcement by a Delhi court, let us look at the timeline of the terror funding and other cases against him.
Yasin Malik — Terror Funding Case | A Timeline
October 1999: Yasin Malik was arrested by Indian Authorities under the Public Safety Act (PSA)
March 26, 2002: Yasin Malik was arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and was detained for almost a year.
May 2007: Yasin Malik and his party JKLF launched a campaign known as Safar-i-Azadi (Journey of Freedom). Under this campaign, Yasin Malik and his colleagues visited about 3,500 towns and villages of Kashmir promoting an anti-Indian stance.
February 2013: Yasin Malik shared the dais with banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed at a protest site in Islamabad.
January 12, 2016: Yasin Malik wrote a letter to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, opposing Gilgit-Baltistan’s merger with Pakistan.
2017: National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered a case of terror funding against various separatist leaders, and named Yasin Malik and four others in a charge sheet filed in 2019.
February 26, 2019: Malik’s house was searched and incriminating material including documents and electronic items was seized.
April 10, 2019: NIA arrested JKLF chief Yasin Malik in connection with a case related to the funding of terror and separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir.
March 2020: Yasin Malik and six accomplices were charged under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA), the Arms Act 1959 and Ranbir Penal Code for the attack on 40 Indian Air Force personnel in Rawalpora, Srinagar on January 25, 1990.
March 2022: A Delhi court reviewed the evidence, and ordered the framing of charges against Yasin Malik and others under the stringent UAPA and Indian Penal Code.
May 10, 2022: Malik pleaded guilty to the charges framed against him. He told the court that he was not contesting the charges levelled against him including sections 16 (terrorist act), 17 (raising funds for the terrorist act), 18 (conspiracy to commit terrorist act) and 20 (being a member of a terrorist gang or organisation) of the UAPA and sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the IPC.
(With agencies)