Raids at JKLF chief’s dwelling over 1990 homicide of Pandit lady | India Information – Instances of India

SRINAGAR: J&Okay police’s Particular Investigation Company (SIA) carried out raids Tuesday on the residence of jailed Jammu Kashmir Liberation Entrance (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik and 7 different Srinagar areas over the homicide of a Kashmiri Pandit lady hospital staffer by terrorists 35 years in the past. The motion in Sarla Bhatt’s homicide case got here every week after lieutenant-governor (LG) Manoj Sinha vowed reinvestigations into such terror killings.Anantnag’s Bhatt, 27, was kidnapped from Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKICC) in Srinagar on April 14, 1990, by JKLF-linked militants on claims of being a police informer. Her bullet-ridden physique was discovered 4 days later. Malik is serving a life time period in Delhi’s Tihar Jail after a 2022 conviction for terror-related crimes.“These strategic searches at eight areas all through Srinagar have resulted in restoration of some incriminating proof, which can assist in unearthing the entire terrorist conspiracy with an final goal to ship Justice to the sufferer and her household,” SIA stated in an announcement Tuesday.The searches additionally spanned houses of former JKLF lynchpins akin to Javid Mir, Peer Noor ul Haq Shah alias Air Marshal Noor Khan, Reyaz Kabir, Bashir Ahmad Gojri, Feroz Ahmad Khan, Kaiser Ahmad Tiploo and Ghulam Mohammad Taploo, all residents of Srinagar.That is the second main terror case reopened in J&Okay. The primary was in 2023 when SIA began a probe into the 1989 killing of Neelkanth Ganjoo, a retired Kashmiri Pandit decide. Ganjoo had sentenced JKLF founder Mohammad Maqbool Butt to demise in 1968 for killing a police officer in Kupwara. Butt was hanged in Tihar Jail on Feb 11, 1984. Ganjoo was shot useless by terrorists on Nov 4, 1989 in Srinagar.A 2008 J&Okay police report revealed that 209 Pandits had been killed by terrorists since 1989. Neighborhood teams insist the quantity is greater.Final week, Sinha had pledged to have such terror instances reopened. “I guarantee the members of the family of civilian martyrs that I can’t relaxation till each household that has been a sufferer of the terrorists’ atrocities will get justice,” the LG had stated at an Aug 5 occasion to mark the sixth anniversary of Article 370’s abrogation. Whereas most J&Okay political events have been silent on the transfer, BJP has hailed the reinvestigations and raids.