Delhi court convicts Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik in terror-funding case

New Delhi-A Delhi court Thursday convicted Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik in a terror- funding case after Yasin had pleaded guilty to all the charges last Tuesday, including the bones under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).

Following the charges, the court directed Yasin to expose all the sources of his income and declare all his means by filing an affidavit, NDTV reported.
The court also asked India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) to find out about Yasin’s fiscal situation, so that it could decide the quantum of fine to put on him. The judgment will be issued on May 25.
According to NDTV, Yasin had refused to accept the charges, including Section 16 (terrorist act), Section 17 ( raising finances for a terrorist act), Section 18 ( conspiracy to commit a terrorist act) and Section 20 ( being a member of terrorist gang or organisation) of the UAPA and Sections 120-B ( felonious conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code.
The court had said that Yasin” had set up an elaborate structure and medium across the world to raise finances for carrying out terrorist and other unlawful conditioning in Jammu and Kashmir in the name of the’ freedom struggle’.”