India, Jan. 28 -- There is no urgency in hearing the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) petition seeking the death penalty for Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief and separatist leader Yasin Malik in a terror funding case, as he is serving a life sentence and the plea seeks only enhancement of punishment, the Delhi high court said on Wednesday. The court granted NIA four more weeks as the last opportunity to file a rejoinder to Malik's reply.

A bench of justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja granted additional time after NIA's lawyer, Akshai Malik, and Khawar Saleem requested the court to do so. Akshai Malik submitted that Yasin Malik filed a 70-page reply in September to the agency's petition, and it required more time...