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The Tihar Jail administration on Saturday suspended four of its officials in connection with the physical appearance of jailed JKLF chief Yasin Malik in the Supreme Court..
The presence of Yasin, serving life term in Tihar Jail in a terror funding case, in a packed courtroom created a flutter in the SC on Friday..
Calling it a major security lapse, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta wrote to Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla seeking to know why Yasin was presented before the SC physically without being summoned..
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