Srinagar, May 27 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has approached the Delhi High Court seeking a death sentence for Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chief and Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik.

The petition is listed for hearing on May 29 before a Division Bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh.

Malik was sentenced to life imprisonment by a special NIA court in a terror funding case in May 2022. He had pleaded guilty in the case.

The NIA had demanded capital punishment for Malik before the trial court as well.

However, the prayer was refused by the special court stating that the death penalty should be awarded only in exceptional cases "where the crime by its nature shocks the collective consciousn...