Jammu, June 29 -- Already serving a life sentence in a terror-funding case, jailed chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Yasin Malik, has landed in fresh legal trouble after the State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Monday filed a 737-page chargesheet in the 1990 abduction and murder of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat.
The filing of the chargesheet marks a significant breakthrough in the reopening of one of the Kashmir Valley's most high-profile terror-era cases, nearly 35 years after the crime.
The chargesheet, filed before the Court of the Additional Sessions Judge, TADA/POTA and Special Judge designated under the NIA Act in Srinagar, names five JKLF terrorists, including former self-styled chief commander Mohamm...