One case relates to the killing of four Indian Air Force personnel on January 25, 1990, in Srinagar and the other to the abduction of Sayeed, daughter of then union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, on December 8, 1989.Malik, chief of the banned organisation JKLF, is facing trial in both cases.The top court was hearing a CBI plea against the September 20, 2022 order of a Jammu trial court directing Malik, serving a life term in Tihar jail, to be produced before it physically to cross-examine prosecution witnesses in the Sayeed case.The CBI said Malik was a threat to national security and cannot be allowed to be taken outside the Tihar jail premises.Sayeed, who was freed five days after her abduction when the then BJP-backed V P Singh government at the Centre released five terrorists in exchange, now lives in Tamil Nadu.She is a prosecution witness for the CBI, which took over the case in early 1990s. Malik has been lodged in Tihar jail after he was sentenced by a special NIA court in May 2023 in a terror-funding case.
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