Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was today sentenced to life in prison by a special Delhi court. The National Investigation Agency had demanded the maximum punishment, the death penalty, while the defence pleaded for life imprisonment.
Yasin Malik cannot invoke Mahatma Gandhi because for Gandhi there was no place for violence while Malik's political movement continued to be violent and he never condemned violence in the valley, a Delhi Court said.
The Court relied on two Supreme Court decisions to conclude that case does not fall within the 'rarest of rare' category to attract capital punishment.