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SRINAGAR: CBI announced connected Monday the apprehension of a fishy wanted for 35 years for his alleged relation successful the 1989 abduction of erstwhile location curate Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's girl Dr Rubaiya Sayeed by the banned JKLF, whose jailed main Yasin Malik is lasting proceedings successful the case.The cardinal agency, which took implicit the lawsuit successful 1990, identified the arrested antheral arsenic "absconder" Shafat Ahmed Shangloo. He had a Rs 10 lakh bounty connected his head."Shangloo conspired with Yasin Malik and others successful committing the crime. He volition beryllium produced successful the TADA court, Jammu, astatine the stipulated clip per law," CBI said.Rubaiya, who was 23 astatine the time, identified Yasin arsenic 1 of her captors during a tribunal proceeding connected July 15, 2022.
Another witnesser backed her grounds successful Feb 2023 erstwhile Yasin appeared astatine that proceeding done video-conferencing from Tihar Jail, wherever helium is serving a beingness condemnation successful a panic backing case.Rubaiya, the 3rd of Mufti Sayeed's daughters and sister of PDP president and ex-J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti, was a aesculapian intern erstwhile JKLF terrorists abducted her connected Dec 8, 1989, from adjacent her location successful J&K's Nowgam. She was returning by autobus from Lal Ded Memorial Hospital.
The terrorists demanded the merchandise of 5 of their jailed associates successful instrumentality for Rubaiya's release. After six days of negotiations, Union govt freed the terrorists contempt past J&K CM Farooq Abdullah being opposed to it. Rubaiya, who present lives successful Tamil Nadu, was freed hours later.Mufti Sayeed, India's archetypal Muslim location minister, was portion the VP Singh-led Janata Dal govt."Even if they had taken my girl hostage, I would not person released a azygous terrorist," Farooq publically said successful 2015.On Sept 19 this year, Mehbooba wrote to location curate Amit Shah, urging him to presumption separatist Yasin's lawsuit done a humanitarian lens. She said his determination to "renounce unit and clasp governmental engagement and non-violent dissent" required courageousness that should not beryllium overlooked."I constitute to you not simply arsenic a witnesser but arsenic idiosyncratic who has lived done the turbulent times of J&K, bearing its grief, enduring its silences, and holding connected to its fragile hopes," Mehbooba wrote.Just implicit a week ago, a 2nd "key eyewitness" identified Yasin successful a Jammu tribunal arsenic the "main shooter" successful the 1990 violent onslaught successful which 4 unarmed IAF unit waiting for a unit autobus successful Srinagar were killed and 22 others wounded.The unnamed witness's grounds came 22 months aft a retired IAF workfellow of the victims archetypal identified the JKLF main arsenic the main equipped assailant.
