Jammu: JKLF Chief, Yasin Malik, a known Pakistan stooge, was on Tuesday shifted from Jammu’s Kot Balwal jail to the Tihar Jail in Delhi, official sources said.
He was brought from Jammu to Delhi on an Air India flight in the evening, the sources said.
Malik had been booked under the harsh Public Safety Act (PSA) and shifted to Jammu on March 7. Under the PSA, any person can be kept in detention for two years without any judicial intervention.
Meanwhile, the NIA on Tuesday summoned former PDP legislator, Ajaz Mir to appear before the agency on April 12 in Delhi in connection with the arms loot case being investigated by the agency.
The Peoples Democratic Party leader has been asked to appear before the investigators at the NIA headquarters here on Friday, said an official.
SPO Adil Bashir, a resident of Zainapora village of Shopian, had fled with seven AK assault rifles of Mir’s personal security officers and the licensed pistol of the legislator from his Jawahar Nagar residence in September last year.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police registered a case and announced a cash reward of Rs 2 lakh for any information leading to the arrest of the SPO, who have been found involved in terror activities as his pictures have emerged on social media along with Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist and the looted weapons.
The officials said the appointment of the SPO is also under a cloud as state police investigations so far show that proper procedure was not followed in the case.
The family members of the SPO including his father, who is the district chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, have been questioned by Jammu and Kashmir Police as part of the investigation.
Mir has been in controversy in 2017 when his police driver Touseef Ahmad was arrested for his alleged role in July 10, 2017 terror attack on Amarnath yatra pilgrims. The attack left seven pilgrims dead and 19 others injured on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway near Khanabal in Anantnag district.