Yasin Malik goes on hunger strike in Tihar jail, demands ‘proper investigation’
Live MintYasin Malik, who is currently serving life term for cases including funding terrorism, has reportedly gone on a hunger strike inside Tihar jail, prison officials said on Saturday. This move came as Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed identified Malik in connection with her kidnapping by JKLF militants on December 8, 1989 on July 15. Apart from the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case, Malik is also facing charges in the case of the gunning down of four Indian Air Force officials in January 1990 in Srinagar. Meanwhile, Rubaiya Sayeed appeared before a special CBI court on July 15 in a case related to her 1989 abduction and identified JKLF chief Yasin Malik and three others as the ones who took her captive, according to news agency PTI report.