36 years on, yasin malik charged in sarla bhat case
Srinagar, June 30 -- 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 chargesheet on Monday before a special TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities) court in Srinagar, naming proscribed Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammad Yasin Malik, then the outfit's "chief commander," and Khurshid Ahmad Chalkoo as the masterminds behind the crime.
A police officer said the investigation had concluded, and the 737-page chargesheet was submitted before the court. The chargesheet said that the murder was not an isolated act of violence but part of a larger, institutionalised conspiracy orchestrated by the JKLF.
The group targeted violence against the minority Kashmiri Pandit community to orchestrate their systematic, forced displacement from the Valley, said an SIA spokesperson.
According to police records, co-conspirator Chalkoo of Uri, who allegedly pulled the trigger, was absconding and believed to be staying in PoK. P7...
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