Trial against Bitta Karate, who admitted killing dozens, begins after 31 years
The plea sought prosecution of Yasin Malik, Bitta Karate, Javed Nalka etc, for hundreds of FIRs of murders of Kashmiri Pandits during 1990s, and which are lying uninvestigated by J&K Police even after 3 decades.
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Srinagar, March 30: The Srinagar sessions court on Wednesday, started trial of terrorist Bitta Karate, who had admitted killing over 40 Kashmiri Pandits during militancy in 1990s. The hearing in the case began after nearly 31 years, following a plea by the family of Satish Tickoo, one of the victims.
The plea, filed by Roots in Kashmir, has challenged an order of the top court passed in 2017 dismissing the plea saying, "The instances referred in the petition pertain to the year 1989-90, and more than 27 years have passed by since then. No fruitful purpose would emerge, as the evidence is unlikely to be available at this late juncture".
He has been roaming freely for years, and heads the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), the outfit that led the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits. He reportedly led the genocide in 1990s and was considered as the number-one hitman of the JKLF till he was arrested in June 1990.
Several Kashmiri Pandits have come out to narrate the horrific incidences of their sufferings during the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley, following the release of movie 'The Kashmir Files'.
A Kashmiri Pandit organisation had also moved a curative petition in the Supreme Court, seeking a probe either by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the mass murders and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits during 1989-90.
The plea, filed by Roots in Kashmir, has challenged an order of the top court passed in 2017 dismissing the plea saying, "The instances referred in the petition pertain to the year 1989-90, and more than 27 years have passed by since then. No fruitful purpose would emerge, as the evidence is unlikely to be available at this late juncture".
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The plea sought prosecution of Yasin Malik and Farooq Ahmed Daar alias Bitta Karate, Javed Nalka and others, for hundreds of FIRs of murders of Kashmiri Pandits during 1989-90, 1997 and 1998, and which are lying uninvestigated by J&K Police even after 3 decades.
He has been roaming freely for years, and heads the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), the outfit that led the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits. He reportedly led the genocide in 1990s and was considered as the number-one hitman of the JKLF till he was arrested in June 1990.