In an attempt to award more and more Kashmiris hard punishments to inflict a mental trauma on Kashmiri people and also pave the way for a win in 2024 general elections, the Modi regime has green-lighted its dreaded investigation agencies to implicate Hurriyat leaders and activists in all murder cases that took place during the start of the armed resistance in 1990s in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
The move comes after the State Investigation Agency (SIA) launched a probe into the murder case of retired Judge Neelkanth Ganjoo, a Kashmiri Pandit, who was assassinated on November 4, 1989, by unknown persons.
The Indian agencies are building a case to blame the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) for the killing, but since no arrest was made as the agencies had no evidence in the case.
“A few more cases are being re-opened. Approximately 10 cases which include that of Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims,” an Indian web portal News 18 reported citing its sources.
“This is being done to unearth the larger criminal conspiracy behind these killings,” the report added.
SIA has published a public notice in local newspapers asking people to come forward and share any account of events.
Earlier this year in May, the SIA arrested two residents of Srinagar on the allegation of being involved in Moulvi Mohammad Farooq’s murder in 1990 at his Nigeen residence in Srinagar.
In September 1968, then Judge Neelkanth had sentenced JKLF founder Muhammad Maqbool Butt to death in 1982. The former judge, after retirement, was killed in 1990. Butt, on the other hand, was hanged on 11 February 1984 in Tihar Jail in Delhi.
In order to unearth the larger criminal conspiracy behind the killing of retired Judge, Neelkanth Ganjoo, three decades ago, the SIA, through a communiqué, has appealed to all persons “familiar with facts or circumstances of the murder case to come forward and share any account of events which has direct or indirect bearing on the investigation of the case”.—KMS
