The Supreme Court directed JKLF chief Yasin Malik, who was jailed on Friday (February 21, 2025), to appear in a Jammu court from Tihar Jail via a video conference on March 7.
A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuiyan said that Jammu is well equipped with the Jammu session video conference system and can be questioned in a virtual way.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) requested the kidnapping case of Rubaiya Saeed, daughter of former Union Minister Mufti Mohammad Saeed and hearing the 1990 Srinagar firing case from Jammu to New Delhi in 1989.
During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing by the CBI, told the court that according to the report filed by the Registrar General of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, the video conference system is working properly in the Jammu court.
Tushar Mehta said that it seems that all the accused are working together to delay the trial. He pointed to refusing to take Yasin Malik’s lawyer’s services and protest against the transfer of other people’s trial.
The Supreme Court had earlier directed the Registrar General of Jammu and Kashmir High Court to ensure appropriate video conference facilities in the Jammu Special Court during the hearing of two cases against Yasin Malik and others. On December 18 last year, the Supreme Court gave two accused two weeks to respond to the CBI plea to transfer the cases.
The petition is about two cases in which four Indian Air Force personnel were killed in Srinagar on 25 January 1990 and Rubaiya was kidnapped on 8 December 1989. The banned JKLF chief Malik is facing trial in both cases.
The Supreme Court was hearing a CBI plea against a lower court of Jammu against the order of September 20, 2022, in which Malik, who is serving life imprisonment in Tihar Jail to cross -examining the prosecution of prosecution in the kidnapping case Instructions were given to introduce it in the form.
The CBI said that Malik is a threat to national security and cannot be allowed to be taken out of Tihar Jail premises. Rubaiya was released five days after his kidnapping. Instead, five terrorists were released by the then VP Singh government, the then BJP -backed BJP at the Center. Rubaiya now lives in Tamil Nadu. He is a prosecution witness to the CBI, who took up the matter in the early 1990s. Malik has been lodged in Tihar Jail since a special NIA court was sentenced in the case of financing terrorism in May 2023.
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