New Delhi, Dec 1: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an individual in connection with the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiyya Sayeed, daughter of the then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, by JKLF militants, officials said on Monday.
The arrested suspect, a resident of Ishber Nishat, has been taken into custody for his alleged role in the abduction that took place 36 years ago, they said.
Rubaiyya Sayeed was released five days after her kidnapping, following the decision of the then BJP-backed V. P. Singh government to free five jailed militants in exchange. She now resides in Tamil Nadu and is a key prosecution witness for the CBI, which assumed investigation of the case in the early 1990s.
Yasin Malik, a prime accused in the kidnapping, is currently lodged in Tihar Jail after being convicted by a special NIA court in May 2023 in a terror-funding case.
