Yasin Malik admitted to hospital after hunger strike in Tihar jail

NEW DELHI: Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik who is serving a life term at Tihar jail in a terror-funding case was admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital in central Delhi on Tuesday, four days after he went on a hunger strike from Friday, people aware of the development said.

Malik, chief of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), was shifted to the hospital in view of fluctuations in his blood pressure.

“The jail doctors noted his BP fluctuating and so referred him to the hospital. He is admitted to the RML hospital. We are getting regular updates from hospital,” said a prison official. On Sunday, the jail authorities shifted him to the medical investigating room and put him on intravenous fluids (IV) after he declined to end his hunger strike.

Malik, who has been lodged alone in a high-risk cell in Tihar’s jail number 7, is serving a life sentence in a terror-funding case. On May 25 this year, a Delhi court sentenced Malik to life imprisonment a week after he pleaded guilty and was convicted of terror funding, spreading terrorism, and secessionist activities in the Kashmir Valley in 2017.