Kashmir separatist leader Yasin Malik was today convicted by a NIA court in a terror funding case, after Malik last Tuesday pleaded guilty to all charges.
On the last date of the hearing, Yasin Malik had said that he will not plead his case. “I know of this case and I do not need a lawyer to pursue my case,” Yasin Malik had told the court, according to news reports.
The court also directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to assess his financial situation in order to determine the amount of fine to be imposed.
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The court will hear the arguments on the quantum of sentence on May 25.
The court had earlier said that Malik had set up an elaborate structure and mechanism across the world to raise funds for carrying out terrorist and other unlawful activities in Jammu and Kashmir in the name of the “freedom struggle”.
Earlier the NIA court had framed charges against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin and others for hatching a criminal conspiracy, waging war against the country, and other unlawful activities.
Yasin Malik, 54, is lodged in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail after he was arrested under the Public Safety Act in March 2019, but a month later his custody was shifted to National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a two-year-old case of “militant and separatist funding”.
The charge sheet was also filed against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, who have been declared proclaimed offenders (PO) in the case.