New Delhi: Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik was Thursday convicted in a 2017 terror-funding case. This comes days after he pled guilty to all charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), for committing a terrorist act, raising funds for terrorism, being a member of a terrorist group and part of a criminal conspiracy, and sedition.
The court asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to assess his financial situation in order to determine the amount of fine to be imposed. Malik was also directed by the court to file an affidavit disclosing all sources of his income and assets
The court will hear the arguments on the quantum of sentence on May 25.
Malik had told the court that he was not contesting the charges levelled against him, which included Section 16 (terrorist act), 17 (raising funds for terrorist act), 18 (conspiracy to commit terrorist act) and 20 (being member of terrorist gang or organisation) of the UAPA and Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 124-A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code.
The court had earlier said that Malik had set up an elaborate structure and mechanism across the world to raise funds for carrying out terrorist and other unlawful activities in Jammu and Kashmir in the name of the “freedom struggle”.
