New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- There is no urgency in hearing the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) petition seeking death penalty for JKLF chief and Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik in a terror funding case, as he is already serving life sentence and the plea seeks only enhancement of punishment, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday, granting four more weeks to the agency to file a rejoinder .

The rejoinder is a document which is filed by a petitioner in response to the reply filed by the respondent in a petition.

A bench of justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja granted additional time after NIA's counsel, Akshai Malik and Khawar Saleem, requested the court for the same. Malik submitted that Yasin filed a 70-page reply in Septem...