Yasin Malik was identified as the gunman involved in the 1990 incident by an eyewitness
JK News Today
Jammu: An eyewitness before the special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Thursday, January 18, named Hurriyat leader and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik as the primary gunman who fired on Indian Air Force soldiers in Srinagar in 1990.
Four IAF troops, including a squadron leader, died and 22 others were injured in the event, which happened on January 25, 1990, near Rawalpora, on the outskirts of Srinagar.
Malik, who is lodged at Tihar Jail, was shown before the court via video. During the legal procedures, Malik was recognised by a prosecution witness, a former IAF employee, Rajwar Umeshwar Singh.
