28 years later, J&K reopens probe into Ganderbal massacre of 23 Pandits
Srinagar: The J&K State Investigation Agency (SIA) has reignited its probe into the 1998 Wandhama massacre, in which 23 Kashmiri Pandits were killed, as part of a broader investigation into violence against the community. The SIA has also launched an inquiry into the murders of prominent figures within the Kashmiri Pandit community, including lawyer and BJP vice-president Tika Lal Taploo, who was shot dead in Srinagar in 1989, and Justice Neelkanth Ganjoo, who sentenced JKLF founder Maqbool Bhat to death before being killed himself in Srinagar in 1989.
In August 2021, SIA conducted searches at nine locations throughout J&K in connection with the killing of Sarvanand Kaul Premi, a Kashmiri Pandit poet and writer, and his son, who were abducted and murdered in Anantnag the following year. Additionally, SIA filed a 737-page chargesheet in May 2020 in connection with the abduction, torture, and murder of nurse Sarla Bhat, who was killed in Srinagar in 1990.
The SIA aims to bring these long-standing cases to a conclusion based on credible evidence and witness testimony.
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