After 3 Decades, J-K SIA Launches Fresh Probe Into Killing Of Kashmiri Pandit Judge Neelkanth Ganjoo

The J&K SIA sought information from the general public to unearth the larger criminal conspiracy behind the killing of Justice Neelkanth Ganjoo, a prominent Kashmiri Pandit figure.

Representative Image of SIA and File photo of Justice Neelkanth Ganjoo

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After a nearly 34-year-long delay, Jammu and Kashmir Police’s State Investigation Agency (SIA) has sought public assistance to reinvestigate the murder case of High Court judge Neelkanth Ganjoo who was killed on November 4, 1989, by suspected militants. Security agencies had blamed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) for the assassination but no arrests were made at that time.

The SIA sought information from the general public to unearth the larger criminal conspiracy behind the killing.

Justice Neelkanth Ganjoo had sentenced JKLF founder Maqbool Bhat to death in a case of murder of a CID inspector Amar Chand and a civilian in 1968. This sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1982.

Maqbool Bhat was later hanged in Tihar Jail on February 11, 1984, after the abduction and killing of Indian Diplomat Ravinder Mhatre in London. 

Later, Justice Neelkanth Ganjoo was shot dead by militants in November 1989 and was among the prominent Kashmiri Pandits targeted by the militants.

Now in order to reopen the investigations, the SIA through a communiqué appealed to all persons familiar with the facts or circumstances of the Neelkanth Ganjoo murder case to come forward and share any account of events that has a direct or indirect bearing on the investigation of the murder case in order to unearth the larger criminal conspiracy into the matter.

“Identity of all such persons shall be kept completely hidden and protected besides all useful and relevant information shall be suitably rewarded”, reads the communiqué.

People privy to relevant information related to this murder case have been asked to contact 8899004976 or email sspsia-kmr@jkpolice.gov.in , as per a spokesman.

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