India, June 29 -- Thirty-six years after the brutal rape and murder of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat, the state investigation agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir filed a definitive chargesheet before a special TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities) court in Srinagar on Monday.

The agency has named proscribed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammad Yasin Malik, then the outfit's "chief commander," and Khurshid Ahmad Chalkoo as the primary masterminds behind the 1990 terror crime.

A senior police officer said that the exhaustive investigation has concluded and the 737-page chargesheet was submitted before the court.

The SIA's investigation reveals that the murder was not an isolated act of violence but part of a lar...