Additional advocate general Monika Kohli, who is CBI’s special prosecutor in the case, said, “Today, the court issued a fresh production warrant for the physical appearance of Malik on the next hearing on December 22 as he had refused to cross-examine the witnesses via virtual mode.”
Special public prosecutor Monika Kohli said Malik attended the hearing on Wednesday via video conferencing from Delhi’s Tihar jail, where he is serving life imprisonment
After Yasin Malik turned down the offer of legal aid, the special court in Jammu asked the separatist leader to submit his stand in writing on the next date of hearing in the third week of September.
Jailed Yasin Malik began his indefinite hunger strike on Friday morning after the Centre did not respond to his plea that he be allowed to physically appear in a Jammu court hearing the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case, in which he is an accused.