Yasin Malik denies involvement in Kashmiri Pandit murder case, says will divorce Pak wife; seeks death penalty
JKLF chief Yasin Malik, who is lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail, claimed that the charges read more like a fabricated story than a legitimate police investigation arguing that the case was constructed decades later purely to frame him.
Mohammad Yasin Malik, a leader of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and a convicted murderer of a Kashmiri Pandit woman, has submitted a 25-page affidavit pleading not guilty but asking for the death penalty. The 60-year-old is currently incarcerated in Delhi's Tihar jail. Malik claims that the charges are a fabrication, an invention made decades later to implicate him politically.
He further announced his intention to divorce his wife, Mushaal Hussein Mullick, citing his prolonged confinement and lack of communication with his family. Malik argues that he was never near the victim, Sarla Bhat, at the time of her murder and that she was an innocent civilian. He also disputes the claim that the JKLF ordered her killing, stating that he was never named as an accused in the Bhat's killing in any of the two dozen cases under the TADA registered against him in 1990.
Malik further claims that the case against him is implausible and devoid of evidence, and that it is driven by current political circumstances.
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