Indian SC allows Yasin Malik to cross-examine witnesses via video conferencing
New Delhi: The Indian Supreme Court has allowed jailed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik to cross-examine witnesses in two cases through video conferencing from New Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the decision came in response to a plea by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which sought the transfer of trials in two false cases.
A bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan reviewed reports from the registrar IT of the Delhi High Court and the registrar general of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on the availability of video conferencing facilities in Tihar Jail and Jammu.
The court noted that the Jammu sessions court was adequately equipped for virtual proceedings.
Yasin Malik, currently lodged in Tihar Jail, informed the court that he did not wish to engage a lawyer for cross-examining witnesses.
