Former J&K chief minister and PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti on Friday wrote a letter to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, appealing for a “compassionate and urgent review” of the case of jailed pro-Pakistan separatist Yasin Malik.

Mehbooba’s sister, Dr. Rubaiya Sayeed, had, on July 15, 2022, identified Malik and three others as her abductors. She was kidnapped near Srinagar’s Lal Ded Hospital on December 8, 1989, and released five days later after the then VP Singh government freed five terrorists in exchange.

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Malik is also charged with killing four IAF officers and injuring 22 others in a shootout in Srinagar in 1990. He is lodged in the Tihar Jail.

On May 24, 2022, a trial court sentenced Malik to life imprisonment after holding him guilty for offences under the stringent

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