NIA arrests Yasin Malik in terror fund case

New Delhi: The NIA on Wednesday arrested Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik in connection with a case of terror funding lodged by the agency sometime back. Malik was bro-ught to the capital late on Tuesday evening following directions of the special NIA court in Jammu which allowed his custodial interrogation by NIA.

Malik has been shifted to the Tihar jail now. He was earlier in February taken into preventive custody by the J&K police and shifted to Jammu’s Kot Balwal jail.

JKLF was banned by the home ministry and the organisation is also facing two CBI cases. These cases are related to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sae-ed, daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sa-yeed, in 1989, and the killing of four IAF personnel in 1990.

The NIA had lodged a separate case in May 2017 against some separatist leaders, including unkno-wn members of the Hurriyat Conference, along with some terrorist organisations — Hizbul Mujahi-deen, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, LeT — and other outfits and groups.