A day after he was sentenced to life in the terror funding case, senior Tihar Jail officials said convicted separatist leader Yasin Malik would be kept in a separate cell amid tight security.
According to senior jail officials, Malik has been assigned a separate cell in jail number 7, which is under tight security. “He (Malik) cannot be assigned any work inside the jail and his security will be monitored regularly,” a senior jail official said.
The official said that before the life sentence was handed down, Malik was assigned a separate cell where he lived alone. “He was kept in jail number 7 before his imprisonment and will remain here,” the officer said.
Special judge Praveen Singh had on Wednesday sentenced Malik to life imprisonment in a terror funding case that had attracted stringent UAPA. In his order, the judge said the offenses committed by Malik “got to the heart of the idea of India” and were “with the intention of forcefully separating Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India”.