Yasin Malik-led Front banned by Centre
   Date :23-Mar-2019

 

 

 
NEW DELHI,

(PTI),

THE Yasin Malik-led Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front ( JKLF) was banned on Friday for a series of violent acts and being in the forefront of separatist activities in the militancy-hit State since 1988, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba said. Listing out its subversive and violent activities, Gauba said the JKLF spearheaded the separatist ideology in Kashmir Valley and the action was taken following the ‘zero tolerance’ policy of the Central Government against terrorism.

“Murders of Kashmiri Pandits by JKLF in 1989 triggered their exodus from the Valley. Malik was the mastermind behind the purging of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir Valley and is responsible for their genocide. “The JKLF has many serious Cases registered against it. This organisation is responsible for murder of four Indian Air Force personnel and kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of the then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in the VP Singh Government,” he told a press conference here after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security took the decision to ban the separatist group.

Gauba said the Central Government has followed the policy of ‘zero tolerance’ against terrorism and has acted strongly against terrorists and the securities forces have been given free hand to deal with terrorism. “The Central Government, in its pursuit of strong action against terrorism, has today declared JKLF (Yasin faction) as an unlawful association under the provisions of Section 3(1) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention)Act,1967,” he said.