Yaseen Malik held, sent to judicial custody

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, AUG. 13. The senior All-Party Hurriyat Conference leader, Mr. Yaseen Malik, was sent to judicial custody till September 4 by a Delhi court today.

The Additional Sessions Judge, Mr. V.K. Jain, refused to cancel the arrest warrants because the Hurriyat leader had violated the conditions imposed by the court while granting bail to him in a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) case on a Supreme Court direction in 1994.

The court had asked him to report to the Tilak Marg police station here on 16th of every month, take the permission of the court before going abroad and appear before the court on every date of hearing. But Mr. Malik was not present in the court when it took up the case for recording of statement of a prosecution witness on March 10.

His counsel filed an application seeking exemption from personal appearance. The court refused to grant him exemption and forfeited his personal bond and sureties of Rs. 50,000 each on April 30.

Mr. Malik was also charged with giving wrong information to the passport authorities in Srinagar, saying that no case was pending against him in any court in the country. Apart from this case, two more cases under TADA are pending against him in Jammu, the judge said.

The judge dismissed counsel's submission that his client had not misrepresented any facts as the Union Government had all along been aware of the cases pending against him. The JKLF leader was later shifted to the high-security Central Jail, Tihar.

The judge directed the Jail Superintendent to ensure that the accused was provided all necessary medical treatment by qualified doctors.

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