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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) connected Monday (November 10, 2025) asked the Delhi High Court for in-camera proceedings portion proceeding the agency's entreaty seeking decease punishment for Kashmiri separatist person Yasin Malik successful the 2017 panic backing case.
A seat of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain said the plea would beryllium considered aft NIA's counsel, Special Public Prosecutor Akshai Malik, requested to behaviour the proceedings in-camera and supply a backstage virtual link.
Yasin Malik, who appeared done video conferencing from Tihar jail, said helium was subjected to intelligence torture due to the fact that of the protracted hold of astir 3 years successful deciding the appeal.
The seat has posted the substance to January 28 for proceeding the arguments.
In September, Yasin Malik, successful an 85-page affidavit submitted earlier the precocious court, claimed that helium spent astir 3 decades arsenic a cardinal fig successful a state-sanctioned "backchannel" mechanism, moving with a succession of premier ministers, quality chiefs and adjacent concern tycoons to foster bid successful Jammu and Kashmir.
The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) main is lodged successful Tihar jailhouse wherever helium is serving a beingness word successful the case.
On May 24, 2022, a proceedings tribunal sentenced the separatist person to beingness imprisonment aft holding him blameworthy for offences nether the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and IPC.
He had pleaded blameworthy to the charges, including those nether the UAPA, and was convicted and sentenced to beingness imprisonment.
Appealing against the sentence, the NIA emphasised that a violent cannot beryllium sentenced beingness word lone due to the fact that helium has pleaded blameworthy and chosen not to spell done trial.
While seeking enhancement of the condemnation to the decease penalty, the bureau said if specified dreaded terrorists are not fixed superior punishment connected relationship of pleading guilty, determination would beryllium implicit erosion of the sentencing argumentation and terrorists would person a mode retired to debar decease sentence.
