NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted the National Investigation Agency (NIA) a last opportunity to file its rejoinder in its appeal seeking the death penalty for Yasin Malik, the Kashmiri separatist leader and chief of the banned JKLF, who is serving a life sentence in a terror-funding case.
A Division Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja allowed four weeks’ time to the anti-terror agency to place its rejoinder on record and listed the matter for further hearing on April 22.
During the hearing, the NIA’s Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) asked for more time to file the rejoinder to Malik’s reply, explaining that the document was still under vetting. Opposing the request, Yasin Malik, who appeared through video conferencing from Tihar Jail and represented himself, remarked that the NIA had been seeking adjournments on every date.