00:00Ankit, questions are being raised in our society, especially among the dogras that you left your parents in childhood, you
00:08spent whole of your life in London, and now you are talking about your mother and father, why you remember
00:13now them, why not before when they were alive?
00:16Yes, because when I was six years old, my mother took me to the UK because everyone was trying to
00:20kill me, and they tried to kill my father after he won the by-election in Udampur, and they rigged
00:25it against him, the parliamentary by-election, not just assembly.
00:27Today is the death anniversary of late Professor B.M. Singh's wife, Jay Mala Ji, and her son, Ankit Lau,
00:37is here present with me. I would like him.
00:41Ankit Ji, welcome to EG TV Bharat. Today is the third death anniversary of Jay Mala Ji, who was a
00:47renowned Supreme Court lawyer as well as a renowned journalist.
00:50What would you like to say about her journey as a journalist, as an advocate?
00:56Thank you, Ashraf. Thank you for having me on ETV, one of the top channels in India and the world.
01:02Jay Mala was an undefeated advocate of the Supreme Court of India. She did 600 petitions in all different courts
01:10and never lost one.
01:11Nobody in the world, you can go on Google, AI searches, you will find there's no other lawyer in the
01:17world that was undefeated.
01:18And she was a woman too. And she was a journalist, she was a great journalist, a brave investigative journalist,
01:23who was reporting from the time of the Khalistan risk.
01:27She would go by herself in a car to the terrorist-infested zones and interview them with no fear and
01:33bring back information.
01:35She was one of the bravest people in the history of our country.
01:38After her death, you have raised several questions about the death and you have said that it is a suspicious
01:45death.
01:45You have reached to court as well.
01:47Ashraf, yes, we have a case in the court about a conspiracy, we believe, that is behind this.
01:52This case has been going on for a year.
01:55Jay Mala died three years ago on 26th April 2023, the same day Maharaja Harising died actually in 1961.
02:02And they tried to shoot my father when he flew the flag of the secretariat at half-mast for the
02:08honor of his king.
02:08So they tried to kill my dad on the same day.
02:10But we believe, and we know that there are conspiracies, we approved them in the past against our family when
02:15we were abducted
02:16or when there were assassination attempts against my family.
02:19In the court, we are looking into whether the police are concealing information.
02:23They have not given me a mother's post-mortem.
02:25It has been three years, it has not been declassified.
02:28What is in the post-mortem not to share with me?
02:30We have gone through the official channels and we are in the court now.
02:33On May 12th, the judge has asked the police to give all the evidence and give an opinion on it
02:38finally.
02:38What is your opinion about the death?
02:43What do you think about her death?
02:45You went to court and you were in London at the day of her death.
02:51And now, what type of justice do you want?
02:53Ashraf, I was banned from entering the country when my mom died.
02:57So it was a struggle.
02:58Only this powerful and the beautiful press people like you got my message out and my ban was overturned and
03:04I could attend my mother's funeral.
03:06And I'm forever grateful to the Indian press and the people for understanding this.
03:10I would like that post-mortem to be released, first of all.
03:13What is it in the post-mortem they cannot share?
03:16If it claims that death is accidental, why not show us the CCTV footage they claim they have of the
03:21fall?
03:21Why don't we find the CCTV footage of the money that was taken out of her bank account on the
03:26day she died?
03:28All the money that was transferred out of her account when she was about to die.
03:32What about this?
03:32She was booked on a flight to go to New Delhi the next day to her home.
03:36She died in a house where there were no witnesses.
03:39So why don't we get all the evidence exposed and given to the people?
03:43This is a famous journalist of India, a brave one.
03:45How can she die in Jammu and nobody know how the circumstances happen and the police not give us the
03:50information?
03:51Why?
03:51Ankit, questions are being raised in our society, especially among the dogras that you left your parents in childhood.
03:59You spent whole of your life in London and now you are talking about your mother and father.
04:04Why you remember now them?
04:06Why not before when they were alive?
04:08Yes, because when I was six years old, my mother took me to the UK because everyone was trying to
04:12kill me.
04:12And they tried to kill my father after he won the by-election in Udampur.
04:16And they rigged it against him, the parliamentary by-election, not just assembly.
04:20My mother lived with me her whole life, by the way.
04:22She was, so how do I go, look at the logic of this.
04:25How does a child go by themselves?
04:27A child cannot go on a flight by themselves.
04:29So these are lies, people are saying.
04:30My mother lived with me her whole life.
04:32She only got stuck here because of COVID.
04:34She was actually a resident in Portugal and she was stuck here because of COVID.
04:38My father died mysteriously during COVID.
04:40I used to visit him all the time just because I was not hungry for the news or the media
04:44doesn't mean I was not here.
04:45Because he did not see me, he did not assume I was not always visiting my father.
04:49My mother was living with me.
04:50She ended up dying in India when COVID happened.
04:54She got locked down and I was banned from coming to the country when my father died too.
04:58Why was you banned to come to India?
05:01Because I did a protest in London against the bifurcation of the state.
05:05I did not believe that the state should be bifurcated the way it was with Ladakh.
05:10Ladakh was added to JNK by my great-great-grandfather, General Zerawar Singh.
05:15It is our pride history that it was one united entity.
05:19So why did they split the state?
05:20I was very, very much against the bifurcation of JNK.
05:23And I did a protest for this and I guess the Indian government wanted to ban me from my father's
05:28funeral.
05:28Then my father died mysteriously after.
05:30And my mother died mysteriously after my father, after she was on TV saying my father died.
05:35So I was always there for my parents apart from when I was banned for fighting for the unity of
05:39JNK.
05:40Very strange.
05:41So we should ask the question next to the people who banned me, why they banned me?
05:45And how come my parents died mysteriously when I was only not present when I was banned?
05:49I was always here for my parents just because I was not chasing fame or power.
05:54Do not assume I was not there.
05:55What would you like to say about the political scenario of JNK especially after the abrogation of Article 370 and
06:04bifurcation of the state?
06:05I believe the state can never be bifurcated.
06:08I believe we are one unified people.
06:10JNK is one people for 100 years before any of the countries today existed in this region since 1846.
06:19So how can they bifurcate our state?
06:21Who is bifurcating our state?
06:22People who have come 100 years after, this is not true.
06:25It's a lie.
06:26JNK, you're one, you're united and that's what we're fighting for.
06:29The union of JNK, the union of India, by cutting our country up, we will lose it.
06:34So these people are very, very against our country who are trying this for some I don't know what reason
06:38madness.
06:39Would you like to fight elections in Jammu and Kashmir?
06:42Would you like to come India and settle here now?
06:45I've been fighting elections since I was six years old.
06:48I've been here always.
06:49Just because you're a child in our culture doesn't mean you're not fighting the elections.
06:52You don't fight an election when you have your own political party from one seat.
06:55You fight it from every single seat, which I've been doing for over 40 years.
06:59So I don't know why you missed the news and everyone else.
07:02Thank you, thank you so much, she was Ankit Laavid, who talked about her mother, the death of her mother
07:09on the third anniversary of the death of her mother,
07:12as well as talked about the changing political scenario of Jammu and Kashmir E.T.
07:16Barth reports from Jammu.
07:18Jammu and Kashmir E.T.
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