Delhi HC Asks Tihar Jail To Ensure Medical Treatment For Kashmiri Separatist Yasin Malik

The High Court adjourned the matter to February 14 and asked Malik’s counsel to get instructions on whether he wants to be treated from AIIMS doctors or other doctors of his choice.

The High Court adjourned the matter to February 14 and asked Malik’s counsel to get instructions on whether he wants to be treated from AIIMS doctors or other doctors of his choice

Source : PTI

Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Tihar Jail Superintendent to ensure that medical treatment is duly provided to Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik.

The High Court adjourned the matter to February 14 and asked Malik’s counsel to get instructions on whether he wants to be treated from AIIMS doctors or other doctors of his choice.

Malik who is convicted in a terror funding case is suffering from cardiac ailments. He moved the Delhi High Court seeking appropriate directions to the Centre and jail authorities to refer him for “necessary medical treatment” as he is suffering from cardiac and kidney related ailments. 

Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta heard the petition by Malik and passed the order directing Centre to ensure medical treatment is provided to Malik. 

The Centre had submitted before the court that Malik does not require to be admitted in AIIMS but needs to be examined as an OPD patient. The same can be done in jail with proper arrangements. 

Malik's counsel told court that he was being treated by different doctors in jail and the change in doctors may affect his health.

Malik was convicted and awarded life-sentence in a terror funding case and is lodged in Tihar jail. 

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had moved the high court seeking death penalty for him. The petition is still pending before the court. Malik has been convicted for various offences including sections under UAPA.

58-year-old Malik was accused in a terror funding in 2017 and arrested in 2019 by the NIA. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in May 2022. The JKLF chief is also accused of kidnapping of then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s daughter Rubiya Sayeed in 1989 and killing Indian Air Force officers in January 1990.