The TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Prevention Act) Court in Jammu on Tuesday ordered that it will hear the case against jailed separatist leader Yasin Malik for the killing of four Indian Air Force(IAF) personnel in Kashmir on November 26.

On September 10, 2019, a warrant was issued against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Malik and three others who were allegedly involved in this incident which took place on January 25, 1990, onthe outskirts of Srinagar city.

Malik is currently in judicial custody at Delhi's Tihar Jail after he was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with a terror funding case.

The CBI had filed two charge sheets against Malik in Augustand September of 1990 before the designated TADA court in Jammu but the JKLFchairman was granted a stay on trial in 1995 by a single bench of the Jammu andKashmir High Court as Srinagar had no designated TADA court.

In April 2019, the path for trial against Malik was clearedafter CBI counsel Monika Kohli told the Jammu and Kashmir High Court that theagency had opposed the transfer of the case to Srinagar which was rejected.Kohli also informed the High Court that the agency had also filed a pleachallenging TADA court order but these could not be heard.

During the hearing, Kohli informed HC Justice Sanjay KumarGupta that there is no TADA court in Srinagar and the designated court in Jammuwas given jurisdiction to hear such cases in May 1990.

In his order, Justice Gupta had said, "... From bareperusal of contents of petitions and relief sought therein, one can definitelycome to conclusion that petitioners (Malik) have sought transfer of their casesfrom designated court Jammu to additional court at Srinagar, which is notpermissible under law."

The IAF case dates back to January 25, 1990 when IAFemployees were fired upon by terrorists in which four of them, includingSquadron Leader Ravi Khanna, died on the spot. Talking to Zee News, RaviKhanna's widow Shalini Khanna had recently said that she has been waiting forjustice for the last 30 years. Shalini, however, expressed hope that she willnow get justice and Malik will face justice for the crime which he hadcommitted three decades ago.