India, April 4 -- The Supreme Court on Friday allowed JKLF chief Mohammad Yasin Malik to cross-examine witnesses in two high-profile cases through videoconferencing from Delhi's Tihar jail.

The order by a bench headed by justice Abhay S Oka came on a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking transfer of the trials - in the 1989 case of the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of former Union minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, and the 1990 Srinagar IAF shootout case - from Jammu to Delhi as the trial required Malik's personal presence to cross-examine witnesses.

Prior to passing the order, the court had directed the registrar general of the Jammu and Kashmir HC to inspect the existing VC facility at the Speci...