Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of ex-CM Mufti, summoned by CBI court in Yasin Malik case

Rubaiya Sayeed was kidnapped by Kashmiri militants in 1989, five days after her father became the first Muslim Minister of Home Affairs.

Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of former Home Minister and Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister late Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has been summoned by a CBI court pertaining to a case related to her abduction in 1989, involving convicted terrorist Yasin Malik. She has been asked to appear before the court on July 15, PTI reported quoting officials. This is the first time that Rubaiya Sayeed has been asked to appear in the case. Rubaiya Sayeed, who stays in Tamil Nadu, is listed as a prosecution witness by the CBI which took over the investigations into the case in early 1990.

For the unversed, Sayeed was kidnapped by Kashmiri militants in 1989, five days after her father became the first Muslim Minister of Home Affairs. The militants had demanded the release of five arrested terrorists in return for Rubaiya’s release. With no other option, the government accepted their demand and freed them.

Yasin Malik, chief of the banned JKLF who has recently been sentenced to life imprisonment in a terror funding case, is an accused in the Rubaiya Sayeed kidnapping case.

(This is a developing story)