The National Investigative Agency (NIA) has appealed in the Delhi high court to convert Malik’s life sentence to the death penalty
Kashmiri leader Mohammad Yasin Malik, once the toast of India’s political elite, is today a pariah facing a double life sentence for his alleged “terrorist” activities.
The National Investigative Agency (NIA) has appealed in the Delhi high court to convert Malik’s life sentence to the death penalty. Malik argued his own cases for a while in the trial court after his first lawyer died during the Covid-19 pandemic, but later refused to participate in the trial.
Embracing the inevitability of certain death, he has written his last testament — a signed and verified affidavit that has been submitted to the Delhi high court. Malik is not contesting the NIA’s appea