The leave of all armed forces deployed in Kashmir has been canceled till further orders after separatist leader Yasin Malik was sentenced to life in the terror funding case. Along with this, the army has also been kept on high alert. Security agencies have expressed apprehension that terrorist elements at the behest of Pakistan can once again worsen the situation in the Valley like in the year 2016. Therefore, instructions have been issued to keep an eye on the miscreants and detain them.
In sentencing the 56-year-old, the judge made the following significant remarks:
‘The convict may have given up the gun in 1994, but never expressed any regret for violence committed prior to 1994 and still remained engaged in violent acts.”
On the convict’s claim he was following ‘Gandhian principle of non-violence,’ the judge said the former ‘cannot invoke the Mahatma’ because unlike Malik, who continued to engage in violence despite giving up the gun, Gandhi called off the entire non-cooperation movement after one incident of violence at Chauri Chara.
“The offences committed were of a very serious nature, and intended to strike at the heart of the idea of India and to forcefully secede J&K from the Union of India.”
The court also imposed a fine of more than ₹10 lakh on the JKLF chief. On May 10, he pleaded guilty on all charges.
