Neelkanth Ganjoo

The Honourable Mr Justice Neelkanth Ganjoo
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Judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court
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Born	16 February 1922 [ citation needed ]
Died	4 November 1989 (aged 67) Srinagar, India

Neelkanth Ganjoo (died 4 November 1989) was an Indian high court judge based in Srinagar who was assassinated by Kashmiri-separatist militants.

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In the late 1960s, as a sessions court judge, he had presided over the trial of JKLF founder Maqbool Bhat in the murder of police inspector Amar Chand in 1966. In August 1968, ^[1] he sentenced Bhat and one other to death. ^[2] This sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court of India in 1982. In 1984, after JKLF cadres in Britain murdered diplomat Ravindra Mhatre, ^[3] Bhat's execution was carried out in Tihar jail. The same year, some militants bombed Ganjoo's house. ^[4]

On 4 November 1989, ^[5] three militants shot Ganjoo dead the Hari Singh Street market, ^[6] near the High Court in Srinagar. ^[7]

References

1. Gh. Rasool Bhat (2015). "Social Background and Political Ideology of Maqbool Bhat" (PDF). Research Directions.
2. "1976: Maqbool Bhat Arrested in Langate | Kashmir Reader". Archived from the original on 19 June 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
3. "BRITISH FIND THE BODY OF INDIAN DIPLOMAT WHO WAS ABDUCTED". The New York Times. 6 February 1984. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 9 December 2015.
4. Praveen Swami (2006). India, Pakistan and the secret jihad in Kashmir. Routledge. p. 157.
5. "Speculation over judge's killing". The Hindu. 7 December 2001. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
6. "Media on a Fai ride | The Asian Age". The Asian Age. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
7. "Show is Over". kashmirlife.net. 16 February 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.