Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, June 13: The State High Court today held that the detention of JKLF chief Mohammad Yaseen Malik is no illegal confinement as he did not furnish the bail and surety bonds of three arrest warrants issued by the court of law.
The court of Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir while closing the letter of JKLF chief which was addressed to Chief Justice said no further action is required. Malik had addressed a letter to Chief Justice of High Court highlighting therein that he is arrested regularly and put behind the bars by authorities without following due procedure of law.
The letter was treated as Heabus Corpus petition and was assigned to the single bench of giving the hearing to the petitioner Malik. He had also mentioned in the said letter that he is suffering from various health issues like heart and kidney problems and had prayed that he may be heard in person.
Court after records summoned from the trial court and also from police authorities, said that the records fully support as to why the petitioner has been taken in preventive custody under Section 107/151 of code of criminal procedure. It has also been revealed how he has been ordered to be released by the court of Executive Magistrate 1st Class Srinagar.
Court said the further arrest of the petitioner in execution of three warrants issued by the court of TADA/POTA Srinagar is also fully supported by the copies of warrants of arrest as such there is no question of illegal confinement.
“In execution of the three warrants of arrest, the petitioner had been produced before the designated court. The petitioner had been asked to furnish bail and surety bonds which he has not, as a result whereof, he had been send to judicial lock-up till further orders”, Justice Mir said after perusal of the copy of order dated 6.6.2016 passed by the TADA/POTA court of Srinagar.
Warrants were issued by the Court of TADA/POTA against the JKLF chief Yasin Malik in connection with the FIR No: 730, 732 and 654 of 1987.
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