Srinagar, Aug. 25 -- The State Investigation Agency (SIA) has now reopened the Wandhama massacre case in which 23 Kashmiri Pandits were killed by terrorists 28 years ago. The police have already reopened several high-profile cases after abrogation of Article 370. Officials said that the SIA, Kashmir, has reopened several cases. "The SIA has began investigation into the Sarwananad Premi Koul, Tika Lal Taploo, and 1998 Wandhama massacre, in which 23 Kashmiri Pandits were killed, as part of a wider push to pursue long-pending cases of targeted killings during the peak of militancy in the Valley," said a senior official privy to details. On January 1998, 23 Kashmiri Pandits were killed in Wandhama village in Ganderbal after they were gunned down by unknown gunmen. They belonged to four families living in the village with a lone survivor who was 14 years old then. On August 12, in connection with the 1990 double murder of a prominent writer and his son, the SIA, Kashmir, had also conducted raids at multiple locations across J&K on Tuesday. Prominent Kashmiri Pandit writer and social worker Sarwananad Premi Koul and his 24-year-old son, Virender Koul, residents of Soaf Shali in Kokernag, Anantnag, were killed after they were abducted from their home in 1990. Thirty-six years after the brutal rape and murder of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat, the SIA of Jammu and Kashmir filed a chargesheet on June 29 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. Sarla Bhat, a 27-year-old staff nurse working at the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Soura, was abducted from her hostel on April 15, 1990. She was subjected to physical torture and sexual assault in captivity before being shot dead. Her body was dumped in Malbagh, Srinagar, along with a JKLF note falsely branding her a "mukhbir (informer)." On June 29, 2025, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha had announced to reopen cases of those people who were killed by Pakistan-backed terrorists during the years of militancy and where the victim families never received justice. On July 1, Sinha had directed the deputy commissioners and senior superintendents of police to reopen cases which were deliberately buried and directed the officers to file an FIR and ensure jobs are provided to next of kin (NoKs) on priority. Earlier, the SIA had issued a public notice seeking help from the public in the murder of Neel Kant Ganjoo, who as a judge had awarded death sentence to Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front founder Maqbool Bhat for killing of police officer Amar Chand at Langate in north Kashmir's Kupwara district. The SIA is already probing some high-profile old cases, the agency tracked down and arrested two absconding terrorists accused in the killing of Mirwaiz Molvi Farooq on May 21, 1990, at the city's Mirwaiz Manzil after 33 years. The accused identified as Javaid Ahmad Bhat of Solina Bala, Srinagar, and Zahoor Ahmad Bhat of Danderkhaw Batamalo, Srinagar, were handed over to the CBI to face trial by the SIA in May. Ganjoo was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Hari Singh High Street on November 4, 1989. Soon after the killing a case was registered....