Srinagar, June 29 -- More than 35 years after the abduction, torture and murder of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat, the Jammu and Kashmir Police's State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Monday filed a 737-page comprehensive chargesheet against five operatives of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), including its jailed chief Mohammad Yasin Malik.
The chargesheet filed before the Court of Additional Sessions Judge for TADA/POTA cases, Special Judge designated under the NIA Act, Srinagar, said that the investigation by SIA conclusively established that the killing of Sarla was not an isolated act of violence but part of a larger terrorist conspiracy orchestrated under the command and control of the JKLF.
Sarla Bhat, a 27-year...