SRINAGAR: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Entrance chairman Yasin Malik, in a 25-page affidavit filed on Wednesday earlier than the extra classes choose listening to Tada and Pota circumstances in Srinagar, has denied any position within the killing of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat.Within the affidavit, Malik additionally talks about divorcing his Pakistani spouse Mushaal Malik to spare her the lifetime of a widow and seeks capital punishment for himself. He says he is not going to contest the case.Malik, who has been in New Delhi’s Tihar jail since 2019, submitted the affidavit in response to the State Investigation Company chargesheet concerning Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat, who was killed April 19, 1990, and by which Malik is arrayed as one of many accused. The affidavit was submitted to the courtroom by Malik’s counsel, advocate Adil Pandit. The case is now listed for reply on Sept 19, 2026.“I’ve no criticism towards this courtroom or the prosecuting businesses. I respectfully state that, in my understanding, the current proceedings have arisen out of political circumstances and choices and I consider that I’ve been falsely implicated within the current case,” Malik writes.Malik asks that his written submissions be learn and handled as forming an integral a part of this affidavit in proof. On June 29, 2026, the SIA had filed a chargesheet in reference to the “tragic homicide of Ms Sarla Bhat, a younger Kashmiri Pandit girl who misplaced her life on 19 April 1990”, the affidavit reads. “To my utter shock and disbelief, I used to be arrayed as one of many accused within the stated chargesheet after greater than three many years of the incidence,” Malik says.Malik says when the killing befell the administration of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir was headed by governor Jagmohan, recognized for personally scrutinising delicate safety information and sustaining shut supervision over issues regarding militancy and public order, and at no level had Jagmohan urged that he was concerned within the case or was answerable for the killing of Kashmiri Pandits or their subsequent migration from the Valley.“Through the related interval in April 1990, I used to be critically injured, unconscious and present process medical remedy. The allegation that I ordered the killing of Ms Sarla Bhat out of revenge is, subsequently, wholly false,” Malik claims within the affidavit. “It’s, subsequently, incomprehensible how an individual who was unconscious, preventing for his personal survival and extensively believed to be lifeless, may have participated in, directed or orchestrated the fee of the offence alleged by prosecution,” he says.Malik addresses his spouse Mushaal Malik and daughter Raziya Sultana, stating: “You (Mushaal) are twenty years youthful than me, and I are not looking for you to spend the remainder of your life carrying the burden of my circumstances or residing as a widow. I subsequently request you to seek out the braveness to start a brand new chapter of your life with dignity and hope… That, earlier than I can be hanged, I’ve taken the choice to separate you from the bond of our nikah.
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”“Contemplating my private circumstances and after deep reflection, I’ve determined to not contest the trial proceedings additional. My resolution shall not be handled as an admission of any prosecution reality, guilt or acceptance of the allegations made towards me. I request for capital punishment,” the affidavit reads.