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On hunger strike in Tihar jail, Yasin Malik put on IV fluids

Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, who is on a hunger strike in Tihar Jail here for five days, is being given intravenous fluids and his health is being regularly monitored by doctors, officials said on Tuesday.

Malik (56), the head of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), began his indefinite hunger strike on Friday morning after the Centre did not respond to his plea that he be allowed to physically appear in a Jammu court hearing the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case, in which he is an accused.

ALSO READ: JKLF chief Yasin Malik’s hunger strike his last bid to change legal course in IAF killings, Rubaiya kidnapping cases

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