NEW DELHI, May 19(ABC): A Delhi court Thursday convicted Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik in a terror-funding case after Yasin had pleaded guilty to all the charges last Tuesday, including the ones under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
Following the charges, the court directed Yasin to disclose all the sources of his income and declare all his assets by filing an affidavit.
The court also asked India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) to find out about Yasin’s financial situation, so that it could decide the amount of fine to impose on him. The sentence will be issued on May 25.
According to NDTV, Yasin had refused to accept the charges, including Section 16 (terrorist act), Section 17 (raising funds for a terrorist act), Section 18 (conspiracy to commit a terrorist act) and Section 20 (being a 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 said that Yasin “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’.”