Srinagar, June 29 -- More than 35 years after the abduction and murder of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat, the Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Monday filed a chargesheet against five operatives of the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). including its jailed chief Mohammad Yasin Malik.
Sarla Bhat, a 27-year-old nurse at the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) and a resident of Anantnag, was among the few Kashmiri Pandits who chose to remain in the Valley after militancy erupted in 1990.
She was allegedly abducted by JKLF militants from SKIMS on April 18, 1990, and taken to the Illahibagh-Lal Bazar area, where she was reportedly tortured and shot dead. Her bullet-riddled body was recover...