{"id":51429,"date":"2022-05-26T16:34:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/yasin-malik-kept-in-separate-cell-under-heavy-security-tihar-jail-officials\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T16:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:04:02","slug":"yasin-malik-kept-in-separate-cell-under-heavy-security-tihar-jail-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51429","title":{"rendered":"Yasin Malik kept in separate cell under heavy security: Tihar jail officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>New Delhi, May 26:<\/em><\/strong> A day after a Delhi court awarded life imprisonment to Yasin Malik in a militant funding case, Tihar prison authorities here on Thursday said the separatist leader has been kept in a separate cell under heavy security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For security reasons, Mailk may not be assigned any work in jail. He has been kept in a separate cell in jail number seven under heavy security. His security will be regularly monitored and reviewed from time to time,&#8221; a senior jail official said. Mailk will also not be entitled to any parole or furlough since he is a convict in a case of terror funding, jail officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even before being awarded life imprisonment, Malik was kept in the separate cell where he stayed alone in jail number seven, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Delhi court on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to Malik in a terror funding case, saying the crimes committed by him struck at the &#8220;heart of the idea of India&#8221; and were intended to forcefully secede Jammu &amp; Kashmir from Union of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special Judge Praveen Singh awarded varying jail terms to Malik for offences under the stringent anti-terror law&#8211;Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and the IPC, rejecting the NIA&#8217;s plea for capital punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Supreme Court, life imprisonment means incarceration till the last breath, unless the sentence is commuted by the authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire Delhi Prisons, which comprises &#8212; Tihar, Mandoli and Rohini jails &#8212; currently has 1,600 convicts out of the total of 19,500 prisoners, they said.\u2013(PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, May 26: A day after a Delhi court awarded life imprisonment to Yasin Malik in a militant funding case, Tihar prison authorities here on Thursday said the separatist leader has been kept in a separate cell under heavy security. &#8220;For security reasons, Mailk may not be assigned any work in jail. He has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}