Yasin Malik Expresses No Confidence in Indian Judiciary, Refuses to Contest Further
SRINAGAR:Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik has filed a detailed 26-page affidavit in a court in Srinagar saying that he has no hope of justice from Indian courts and is ready to face even death sentence.
In the affidavit, Malik refused to contest his case further saying he will leave his case to God and also brought the allegation that the Indian government was concocting a fake case for hanging him after 36 years.
Denial of 1990 charges and political exploitation continued to be a problem.Denial of 1990 charges and political exploitation remained an issue.
Yasin Malik rejected categorically that he was in any way involved in the murder of Sarla Bhat in 1990. He has raised doubts about the disappearance of a JKLF note from official records and its references to him in the case.
Malik told the court that he had been injured badly 11 days before the murder, and was physically incapable of planning and giving instructions for that murder. He said that earlier, Indian agencies had asked him to play a role in strengthening relationship with Pakistan but later used those interactions as the basis to discredit him.
He revealed that names of people such as Ajit Doval, Brajesh Mishra, and R.K. Mishra had urged him to have a positive role in the Indo-Pak relations during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s time, but in the run-up to both the 2019 and the 2024 elections, his name, photograph, and ongoing court proceedings were used for political narratives.
This is a booklet on the personal appeal and rejection of political revenge.
Malik said he had decided not to challenge the case “in protest against political victimisation” and if the court gives him a death sentence, he is willing to face it “for the cause of Kashmir” but explained that taking a judicial sentence does not imply that he took the burden of guilt.
The affidavit would describe years of extended incarcerations, solitary confinement and the separation of the father from his mother and wife and daughter. Mushaal Malik wrote that he wanted to break his wife, Yasin, from the “life of prolonged waiting” and that his daughter, Mushaal, should “keep talking to her grandmother and help ease her grief. He finally said that he had put his opinion and conscience up for trial before the court and that it would be left up to God to decide the final outcome.
Political analysts see Malik’s trial as a tactic of the Modi government to use political pressure and intimidation to silence a prominent Kashmiri voice, noting that Kashmiri freedom activists are continuing to fight despite long years of incarceration and state harassment. Experts said that New Delhi can crack down on people, but not on the Kashmiri ideology of freedom, and urged the United Nations to take a role in freeing the political prisoners.