The CBI may approach the Supreme Court seeking vacation of stay on the trial against separatist leader Yasin Malik in connection with Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case and killing of four Indian Air Force officers in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989. The high court of Jammu and Kashmir had earlier stayed the trial against Malik in the Tada court in Jammu.
It may be recalled that Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of former chief minister of J&K, was kidnapped when she was returning home in a local mini bus on December 8, 1989. She was kidnapped by members of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). The kidnappers had demanded the release of five of their comrades in exchange for Rubaiya’s release.
The government accepted their demands and freed the jailed terrorists. Malik, chairman of the JKLF, is accused of masterminding the Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case.
The CBI also investigated killing of four Indian Air Force officers in 1989 in J&K allegedly by JKLF members in which Malik is one of the accused. Both cases involving Malik were heard in Tada court in Jammu.