In plea for death penalty, NIA cites Yasin Malik’s Pakistan contacts and militant ties

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that separatist leader Yasin Malik was in “contact with the top leadership of Pakistan, including the Prime Minister, the President, senators of the Pakistani Senate, and the Chief Ministers of all provinces, and was using such contacts to propagate narratives against India and to further the secessionist agenda in Jammu & Kashmir”.

The agency, which has sought enhancing his life sentence in a terror funding case to death penalty, argued that taking names of senior politicians and bureaucrats does not absolve or negate his links with militants like Hafiz Saeed. The NIA made the submission in a rejoinder filed before the high court.