Malik has responded to the chargesheet, stating that the prosecution’s principle that he ordered Sarla Bhat’s killing out of revenge is essentially at odds together with his character and conduct.
He cited a beforehand undisclosed 1996–97 episode when a journalist’s go to to him sparked a harmful information report. There have been fears of JKLF retaliation in opposition to her however he neither authorised nor precipitated her any hurt to that journalist regardless of feeling wronged.
It is a proof that he by no means resorts to violence and therefore, it was wholly implausible that he would order Bhat’s killing over mere suspicion, Malik contended.
“The prosecution’s principle turns into much more untenable when considered alongside the undisputed historic document that, through the related interval in April 1990, I used to be critically injured, unconscious and present process medical remedy. The allegation that I ordered the killing of Ms. Sarla Bhat out of revenge is, subsequently, wholly false, unsupported by proof and opposite to each my conduct and the target details,” his submitted.
