Essential eyewitness identifies Yasin Malik as shooter of IAF personnel in 1990

An important eyewitness in a particular CBI court docket on Thursday recognized JKLF chief Yasin Malik as the primary shooter firing at Indian Air Pressure personnel in Srinagar in 1990.

4 IAF personnel, together with a squadron chief, had been killed and 22 injured on January 25, 1990, at Rawalpora on the outskirts of Srinagar.

Rajwar Umeshwar Singh, a former IAF staffer and a witness for the prosecution, recognized Malik who was produced earlier than the court docket by means of video from Delhi’s Tihar Jail the place he has been incarcerated for a number of years.

“This is a crucial growth within the case… the prosecution witness has recognized Malik as the person behind the taking pictures,” mentioned Senior Public Prosecutor for CBI Monika Kohli. PTI