Four days after banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik went on a hunger strike in Tihar jail, the jail administration has put him on intravenous (IV) fluid or glucose, reported The Indian Express.
Malik has stopped eating food since 22 July alleging that his case was not being investigated properly.
Malik, sentenced by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Delhi this year, is serving two life sentences and varying jail terms, all running concurrently, under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Senior jail officials told The Indian Express that Malik refused to eat on Friday and declared an indefinite hunger strike. “Initially, the jail officials met with him and tried to convince him to end his strike, but he refused. From 24 July, he is on intravenous fluid or glucose,” a senior official said.
Malik was arrested by the NIA in 2019 in connection with an overarching terror-funding case that it had opened in 2017.
