SC refuses production of Yasin Malik before Jammu court; orders cross-examination through video conferencing from Tihar jail

Refusing the production of JKLF leader Yasin Malik before a special CBI court (TADA/POTA) in Jammu in two kidnapping and terror-related cases against him, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered that the separatist leader can cross-examine the prosecution witnesses through video conferencing facilities from Tihar jail where he is serving life imprisonment in a terror-funding case.

- PARMOD KUMAR

Ordering the cross-examination of prosecution witnesses in two cases — the killing of four Indian Air Force personnel on January 25, 1990, in a shootout in Srinagar, and the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed — the daughter of late Union Home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed — on 8 December 1989, a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan noted that the reports of the Registrar General of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, as well as the Tihar Jail Superinte