NEW DELHI, Dec 18: The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave six accused two weeks to respond to the CBI’s plea to transfer the trial in the 1989 Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping and the 1990 Srinagar shootout cases from Jammu to New Delhi.
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A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Manmohan took note of the fact that the six accused have not filed their replies to the Central Bureau of Investigation’s plea and asked them to do the needful in two weeks. It listed the case for further hearing on January 20, 2025.
One case relates to the killing of four Indian Air Force personnel on January 25, 1990 in Srinagar and the other to the abduction of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, on December 8, 1989.
Yasin Malik, chief of the banned organisation JKLF, is facing trial in both cases.
While Malik has filed his response, six of the other 10 accused are yet to file their replies to the CBI plea. “If trial is to be transferred then all accused have to be heard,” the bench said. One accused Mohammed Rafiq Pahloo passed away and the trial against him stood abated, the bench was informed.
Besides Malik and Pahloo, 10 persons were made party to the CBI’s plea. (PTI)
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