India Slams OIC On Yasin Malik Case

India finds the comments unacceptable, says Mr. Bagchi

New Delhi: India criticised OIC-IPHRC for its criticism of judgment in the terror funding case involving terrorist Yasin Malik and said the organisation has implicitly expressed support for the terrorist activities.

India urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) not to justify terrorism in any manner, saying the world seeks zero-tolerance against the menace.

Taking notes from the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that Malik's terrorist activities have been documented and presented in court.

While responding to media queries on the comments made by OIC-IPHRC on the judgement of the NIA (National Investigation Agency) Court regarding Yasin Malik, Mr. Bagchi said India finds the comments unacceptable.

"India finds unacceptable the comments made by OIC-IPHRC today criticising India for the judgement in the case of Yasin Malik. Through these comments, OIC-IPHRC has implicitly expressed support for the terrorist activities of Yasin Malik, which were documented and presented in the Court. The world seeks zero tolerance of terrorism and we urge OIC not to justify it in any manner," Mr. Bagchi said.

On Wednesday, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) court

awarded life imprisonment to Yasin Malik, a terrorist from Jammu and Kashmir, in a terror funding case.

The NIA court while sentencing life imprisonment to Malik also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment twice. NIA had sought the death penalty for the terrorist leader who was convicted on May 19.

Malik had told the court that he was not contesting the charges levelled against him.