Yasin Malik sent to five-day judicial custody

 JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik was on Monday remanded to a five-day judicial custoday after he was booked in a 29-year-old TADA case.

Malik, who was arrested on Saturday, was produced in the TADA court and after hearing the arguments, the judge ordered him to be remanded in Central Jail till June 11, a JKLF spokesman said. He added that the chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front has been booked under a 29-year-old TADA case pertaining to organising a rally for erstwhile Muslim United Front (MUF) which had contested the 1987 Assembly elections in the state.

Malik, hardline Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, late Abdul Gani Lone, late Qazi Nisaar and late Ghulam Muhammad Shah are among the accused in the case. Malik was arrested on Saturday after he tried to take out a protest march to Lal Chowk, the nerve centre of Srinagar, from his Maisuma residence against alleged high-handedness of the police during a midnight raid at his residence on Friday, shortly after his release from Central Jail on bail.