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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSRINAGAR: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik, in a 25-page affidavit filed on Wednesday before the additional sessions judge hearing Tada and Pota cases in Srinagar, has denied any role in the killing of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat.In the affidavit, Malik also talks about divorcing his Pakistani wife Mushaal Malik to spare her the life of a widow and seeks capital punishment for himself. He says he will not contest the case.Malik, who has been in New Delhi\u2019s Tihar jail since 2019, submitted the affidavit in response to the State Investigation Agency chargesheet regarding Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat, who was killed April 19, 1990, and in which Malik is arrayed as one of the accused. The affidavit was submitted to the court by Malik\u2019s counsel, advocate Adil Pandit. The case is now listed for reply on Sept 19, 2026.\u201cI have no complaint against this court or the prosecuting agencies. I respectfully state that, in my understanding, the present proceedings have arisen out of political circumstances and decisions and I believe that I have been falsely implicated in the present case,\u201d Malik writes.Malik asks that his written submissions be read and treated as forming an integral part of this affidavit in evidence. On June 29, 2026, the SIA had filed a chargesheet in connection with the \u201ctragic murder of Ms Sarla Bhat, a young Kashmiri Pandit woman who lost her life on 19 April 1990\u201d, the affidavit reads. \u201cTo my utter shock and disbelief, I was arrayed as one of the accused in the said chargesheet after more than three decades of the occurrence,\u201d Malik says.Malik says when the killing took place the administration of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir was headed by governor Jagmohan, known for personally scrutinising sensitive security files and maintaining close supervision over matters concerning militancy and public order, and at no point had Jagmohan suggested that he was involved in the case or was responsible for the killing of Kashmiri Pandits or their subsequent migration from the Valley.\u201cDuring the relevant period in April 1990, I was critically injured, unconscious and undergoing medical treatment. The allegation that I ordered the killing of Ms Sarla Bhat out of revenge is, therefore, wholly false,\u201d Malik claims in the affidavit. \u201cIt is, therefore, incomprehensible how a person who was unconscious, fighting for his own survival and widely believed to be dead, could have participated in, directed or orchestrated the commission of the offence alleged by prosecution,\u201d he says.Malik addresses his wife Mushaal Malik and daughter Raziya Sultana, stating: \u201cYou (Mushaal) are twenty years younger than me, and I do not want you to spend the rest of your life carrying the burden of my circumstances or living as a widow. I therefore request you to find the courage to begin a new chapter of your life with dignity and hope\u2026 That, before I will be hanged, I have taken the decision to separate you from the bond of our nikah.<\/p>\n Share your thoughts in the comments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n