Parts of Srinagar witnessed a shutdown today ahead of a Delhi court’s verdict on Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik, who was convicted in a terror funding case earlier this month.
Shops and other business establishments were shut in some parts of the city, transport services were normal.
Security officials have been deployed in the sensitive areas of Srinagar to avoid any law-and-order situation, according to reports.
The court had earlier observed, while convicting Mr. Malik that he had a role in setting up an elaborate structure and system globally to raise funds for carrying out terrorist and other unlawful activities in Jammu and Kashmir in the name of the ‘freedom struggle.’
The Kashmiri separatist told the court that he was not contesting the charges levelled against him, including those related to terror funding, spreading terrorism and secessionist activities in Kashmir in 2017.
Malik faces a maximum punishment of the death penalty, while the minimum sentence for the Kashmiri separatist in the case is life imprisonment.
The National Investigative Agency (NIA) on Wednesday sought death penalty for convicted Kashmiri separatist.
The agency made the submission before special judge Praveen Singh, while the amicus curiae appointed by the court to assist Malik sought the minimum punishment in the matter, which would be life in prison.