Kashmiri leader Mohammad Yasin Malik, once the toast of India’s political elite, is today a pariah facing a double life sentence for his alleged “terrorist” activities. The National Investigative Agency (NIA) has appealed in the Delhi high court to convert Malik’s life sentence to the death penalty. Malik, according to his affidavit, was used as an instrument by the Indian State and then cast aside as a liability. After he denounced armed struggle for good as the chief of J&K Liberation Front by declaring a unilateral ceasefire in 1994, successive Indian governments used Malik as a bridge with the Kashmiri separatists. By embracing death, he underlines the injustice of the Indian State in sending a peace-seeker to the gallows.