STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Dr Rubaiya Sayeed, the younger daughter of former Home former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, will appear in TADA court for the second time tomorrow in 1989 kidnapping case.
On August 23,. the special Jammu court had issued bailable warrants against Rubaiya Sayeed after she didn’t turn up at the trial against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik in connection with her abduction in December 1989.
Rubaiya Sayeed, a medical student at that time, was abducted on December 8, 1989, and freed on December 13 that year after the Union government her father Mufti Mohammed Sayeed was the Union home minister in the VP Singh government agreed to release five arrested terrorists.
Monika Kohli, t?e special public prosecutor for Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act [TADA] cases, had said on last hearing day that Rubaiya Sayeed was supposed to be present in the court but missed the hearing. TADA was anti-terrorism law that was in force between 1985 and 1995. Several cases registered under it are still in various stages of the legal process.
“Since she didn’t turn up, the court issued a bailable warrant against her… Yes, she can appear and get the warrants cancelled but this is a procedure under the law to ensure her presence on the next date of hearing,” Kohli had said. The next date of hearing was fixed for September 21, 2022.
