NIA arrests JKLF chief Yasin Malik in funding case

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday arrested JKLF chief Yasin Malik in connection with a case related to the funding and separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said here.

Malik was brought to the national capital Tuesday evening after a special NIA court in Jammu gave the go ahead for his custodial interrogation by the probe agency, they said

.The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief, who was shifted to Tihar jail under police protection, was taken into preventive custody in February by the Jammu and Kashmir police and shifted to Jammu’s Kot Balwal jail.

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