JAMMU: Former J&K chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed’s daughter Rubaiya Sayeed, who appeared before a special CBI court on Friday in a case related to her 1989 abduction, identified JKLF chief Yasin Malik and three others as her abductors.
Rubaiya was abducted near Srinagar’s Lal Ded Hospital on December 8, 1989, and freed from captivity five days later on December 13 after the then VP Singh government, supported by the BJP at the Centre, released five terrorists in exchange for her safe return. Her father was the Union home minister at the time.
Malik is at present lodged in Tihar Jail and he was present in the court through videoconferencing. He was arrested in early 2019 in connection with the 2017 terror-funding case registered by the NIA and was sentenced to life imprisonment in May this year.
