Overview
- The NIA asked the Delhi High Court to avoid open-court proceedings and to provide a separate private video link for Yasin Malik.
- The agency’s appeal seeks to upgrade Malik’s 2022 life sentence to the death penalty in the 2016 terror-funding case under the UAPA.
- Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain said they would consider the request and listed the case for January 28 next year.
- Malik, representing himself via video from Tihar Jail, consented to the adjournment but pressed for an early hearing, citing mental anguish.
- In a sealed affidavit, Malik claims the state engaged him on a peace track with past prime ministers and denies terror funding, as the trial judge earlier found the case fell short of the 'rarest of rare' threshold for capital punishment.