Indian SC directs Yasin Malik to virtually appear in Jammu court from Tihar

The Indian Supreme Court has directed jailed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik to appear in a Jammu court from Tihar Jail through video-conferencing on March 7.

A bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan noted that the Jammu sessions court was “well-equipped” with the video-conferencing system enabling the virtual examination.

The CBI sought the transfer of the trials in the 1989 case of the kidnapping of Rubiya Sayeed, daughter of former Indian minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, and the 1990 Srinagar shootout case, from Jammu to New Delhi.