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Part
II: Chapter 8
MASSACRE OF KASHMIRI
PANDITS
(PART 2 of 3)
Girija Kumari
Tiku
Name: Girija
Kumari Tiku
Husband's Name: Kanya Lal Tiku
Date of Birth:
15.2.1969
Date of Assassination:
11.6.1990
Residence: Arigam, Bandipora, Baramulla
Survived by
mother (60), husband (25), son and daughter (4 and 2)
She was a laboratory
assistant posted at Government High School, Trehgam. She had gone to the
school to collect her salary. After collecting her salary, she called on
her Muslim colleague in the same village. Her movements were watched by
the Muslim terrorists who kidnapped her from the house of her Muslim friend.
None protested as she was a Hindu Kafir the possession of whose body was
halal (lawful). She was stripped, gang-raped, placed on a mechanical saw
and chopped into two equal halves. The frenzied Muslim terrorists committed
the grisly crime to establish a political order as conceived in their Nizam-e-Mustafa.
It was a monstrous and barbarous killing.
All brands
of human rights activists with blinkers on their eyes failed to notice
the gory murder of Girija Tickoo. But, Salman Khurshid in his book "Beyond
Terrorism" had the grace not to conceal the barbarous murder of the Hindu
lady by her Muslim killers who have revived the history of Muslim tyrants.
Writes he, "Girija Tickoo of Bandipora worked as a laboratory assistant at the Girls
High School in Trehgam, Kupwara. She was abducted in June, 1990 gangraped
for several days and then shred into pieces on a bar and saw mill."
Usha Kumari
Koul
Name: Usha Kumari
Koul
Husband's Name:
Rathinder Koul
Date of Birth:
13.6.1949
Date of Assassination:
14.10.1990
Residence: Sehyar, Ali Kadal, Srinagar
Survived by
father-in-law (79), mother-in-law (68) son (10)
She was employed
as a workman in the Watch Factory at Zainakot. On the fateful day she started
her daily chores at 7 in the morning. Suddenly she found her husband drenched
in blood while he was coming down the stairs She cried and screamed when
she noticed the gun-totting Muslim killers leaving the portals of her house.
They returned from the gate and pumped bullets into her killing her m no
time. The Muslim murderers had entered her house stealthily and gone straight
to the room of her husband and sprayed him over with bullets. The couple
was murdered in cold blood.
Sarla Bhat
Name: Sarla Bhat
Fathers Name:
Shamboo Nath Bhat
Date of Birth:
30.9.1966
Date of Asassination:
18/19.4.1990
Residence:
New Qazi Bagh, Anantnag
Survived by
father (53), mother (48), brothers (26,18), sister (21).
She was a nurse
working in the Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura and was suspected of
being an informer. She once by chance while on duty was said to have overheard
the conversation between Dr. Abdul Ahad Guru, the kingpin of terrorism
in the Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura and Hamid Sheikh, Deputy Commander
of JKLF. She was said to have been eliminated at the behest of Dr. Guru
who had asked her to go on leave but had not obliged him. She was tortured
and gangraped for five days and her dead body was thrown on the main road
of the Omar colony. Her body bore multiple marks of violence, injuries,
burn marks, and four bullet shots. The post-mortem report confirmed that
she had been gangraped before putting her to bullets.
No security
was provided by the government authorities working in cahoots with the
terrorists when she was carried to the cremation ground for last rites.
Bombs were hurled on the relatives of the victim on way to the crematorium.
Even the house of the bereaved family at Anantnag was not spared. It was
put afire in all vengefulness.
Jia Lal
Kaw
Name: Jia Lal
Kaw
Father's Name:
Ganesh Kaw
Date of Birth:
4.7.1925
Date of Assassination:
S.5.90
Residence: Kawpora, Handwara
Survived by
wife (50), son (23), daughters (18,16)
On the fateful
day he was sipping a cup of tea in the warm company of his family. A squad
of Muslim terrorists wielding guns barged into his house and forcibly took
him away alongwith his minor son. The members of his family begged of the
heartless Muslims to set them free but their pathetic pleas could have
no impact on them. For four days they were brutally tortured and finally
killed. Their bodies bore burn marks. Their eye-balls were gouged out.
Jia Lal's tongue was chopped off and his face was disfigured. His hair
was plucked out. Both the legs of the minor were amputated with an axe.
A note was placed on the bodies that anybody daring to lift the bodies
would be put to the same fate.
And Jia Lal
was adamant not to leave Kashmir as he considered it crown of India.
Prof. K.L.
Ganjoo & Mrs. Prana Ganjoo
Prof. K.
L. Ganjoo
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Mrs. Prana
Ganjoo
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Name: K.L. Ganjoo/Prana Ganjoo
Father's Name/Hubsand's
Name: N.N. Ganjoo/K.L Ganjoo
Date of Birth:
4.1.1942
Date of Assassination:
4.11.1990
Residence:
Sopore
Survived by
son (6), daughter (8)
He was an agro-scientist
and worked at the Agriculture college, Sopore. He had wide contacts with
Muslims and as a teacher had taught and initiated hosts of learners. Pandits
fleeing from their homes and hearths had failed to make an impress on him
as he trusted the hollow assurances of his friends and students. He had
been to Nepal on an assignment for a short period and returned to his native
town in March, 1990. His wife, Prana Ganjoo, and his nephew had accompanied
him to Nepal. Two employees of the college went in a Jeep to receive him
on the out-skirts of the town. All the three boarded the Jeep and the moment
they reached the middle of the Sopore bridge they were pushed out of the
vehicle The professor was sprayed over with bullets and hurled into the
fast-flowing waters of the Jehlum to meet his watery grave. His nephew
was given two options of either jumping into the river or witnessing the
torture that his aunt would be put to. Preferring the first option he jumped
into the river and fast flowing current of the river buffeted him to safety.
The professor's body riddled with bullets was found on the shores of the
river.
His wife was
barbarically treated. She was gangraped and her breasts were chopped off
and finally put to bullets. But the police sources have yet to confirm
her killing.
Dina Nath
Mujoo
Name: Dina Nath
Mujoo
Father's Name:
Tota Joo Mujoo
Date of Birth:
8.8.1910
Date of Assassination:
6/7.4.1990
Residence: Rawalpora, Srinagar
Survived by
wife (80), sons (52 and 42).
He was one
among the galaxy of Kashmiri Pandit headmasters who had made history for
their calibre and scholarship. Throughout his distinguished career as a
teacher he had taught thousands of Muslim scholars in the schools he had
served. He had the achievements of a scholar, profundity of a philosopher
and understanding of a teacher. He was a life long member of the Women's
Welfare Trust, Srinagar which has a tremendous history of contribution
to the cause of Women's education. Kashmir Shaivism, Theosophy and J.Krishnamurti
were his forte.
A cruel terrorist
barged into his room at dead of night switched off the lights and stabbed
him on the left side of his chest and gashed his throat. His wife who is
old, weak and infirm, heard her husband moan and started yelling out for
help. The same brute kicked her and pushed her under the bed where she
lay unconscious. Though bleeding and emaciated Mujoo mustered his guts
to come to the window of the room and called out for his neighbour, Zaffar
Ahmed, who is a Police Inspector. He must have heard the eighty year old
man cry and scream, but how could he come to the aid of a Hindu Kafir whose
elimination is a religious act? Placing his head in the lap of his semi-blind
wife who by then was slightly conscious, he bled to death. His assassin
is believed to be at large.
Naveen Sapru
Name: Naveen
Sapru
Father's Name: S.N. Sapru
Date of Birth:
14 Feb.1953
Date of Assassination:
17 Feb,1990
Residence: Babapora, Habba Kadal Srinagar
Survived by
wife (30), mother( 60), sons (8 and 3)
He was an inspector
in the Telecommunications Department, Srinagar. While returning home at
5 in the evening the Muslim terrorists lying in wait spotted him near Kaniyakadal
and marched towards him in all gusto. They straightaway started putting
him to a shower of bullets. He started bleeding profusely and fell down.
The hounds who had planned his death in a mosque did not kill him by pumping
a bullet at a sensitive spot. They made him to writhe in pain and agony
and die by inches. Ultimately he died from excessive bleeding. The macabre
scene was enacted in daylight. It was witnessed by hundreds of Muslims
who did not intervene but seemed to enjoy the of a non-Muslim to the hilt.
An old Pandit lady who chanced to pass by the roadside begged of the killers
to spare his life, but the Muslim hounds pushed her away in brute violence.
When the dead body of Navin Sapru was carried to the cremation ground for
last rites, the hounds boarded a truck and were seen dancing in absolute
joy and mirthfulness..
Mrs. Prana
Ganjoo
Name: Mrs Prana
Ganjoo
Husband's Name:
Jawahar Lal Ganjoo
Date of Birth:
10.4.1945
Date of Assassination:
17.6.1990
Residence: Malapora, Habakadal Srinagar
Survived by
son (27), daughters (30,25,19)
The Muslim
killers intruded in her house and shot her to death at Malapora in broad
daylight. The entire neighbourhood fell into gloom as she was young and
blooming and looked after her family with love and dedication.
Prof. Nila
Kanth Raina
Name: Nila Kanth Raina, M.A (History), M.A. (Economies), M.A. (political Science),
B.Ed.
Father's Name: J.N. Raina
Date of Birth:
7.8.1924
Date of Assassination:
30.6.1990
Residence:
Khankai Sokhta, Srinagar
Survived by
wife (64), sons (40,36,30,28), daughter (26)
He was a veteran
teacher with an enviable record of academics. The Muslim killers killed
him in the early hours of morning when he alongwith his family was boarding
a truck to buzz off his native place. The terrorists were none other than
his students whom he had initiated to drive away the brute in them, but
despite his initiation the brute remained to take his toll. A full exercise
was undertaken by the Muslim killers prior to his killing. All Muslims
in the neighbourhood complied with the commands of the terrorists to keep
their doors and windows open so that after the gruesome murder they would
melt away into their residences. Nobody reported the preparations for his
killing to the nearby police station though that would be a mere formality.
Raina was shot at neck and chest and fell down writhing in pain and agony.
Nobody said a word about his cold-blooded murder. Instead the death was
celebrated as a victory for Islam and its militarised Jehad.
In his capacity
as a celebrated teacher he entered hundreds of Muslim homes to teachand
humanise the wards of Muslim parents who did not shed a single tear on
his death or even offer condolences.
Jawahar
Lal Ganjoo
Name: Jawahar
Lal Ganjoo
Father's Name: M.N. Ganjoo
Date of Birth:
15.7.1940
Date of Assassination:
17.6.1990
Residence: Malapora, Habba Kadal Srinagar
Survived by
mother (75), son (27), daughters (28,26,20)
He was a small-scale
businessman. He was killed along with his wife by the Muslim killers, who
battered their way into his house and pumped bullets into him killing him
on the spot.
Mrs. Durga
Koul
Name: Durga Koul
Husband's Name:
Badri Nath Koul
Date of Birth:
8.10.1934
Date of Assassination:
17.6.1990
Residence: Malapora, HabbaKadal Srinagar
Survived by
mother (75) son (30), daughter (28)
She was a middle-aged
house-wife. The Muslim assassins killed her in the house of Jawahar Lal
Ganjoo by pumping a barrage of bullets into her. Her husband, Durga Nath
Koul, was also killed in the same massacre. The Muslim pathology
touched
its apogee when the killers footed a dance in all mirthfulness outside
the house. Instead of mourning the entire locality echoed murmurs of Joy
over the group massacre of hapless Pandits.
Mrs Pitti
Koul
Name: Pitti
Koul
Husband's Name:
Makhan Lal Koul
Date of Birth:
1.3.1938
Date of Assassination:
7.11.1990
Residence:
Mandir Bagh, Srinagar
Survived by
husband (53), son (26), daughters (28),mother (70)
She was a school
teacher and with the spurt in militancy she had migrated to Jammu alongwith
her family. As the Muslim murderers claiming to operate in the name of
Islam found very few victims among the Kashmiri Pandits for the fact that
they had migrated enmass to various parts of the country, they propagated
a ruse through their Muslim collaborators that the Pandits could return
to the Sally to take back their house-hold goods lying in their homes Pitti
and her husband were caught in the ruse. Both
of them left
for Srinagar to retrieve the goods left behind in their warm and cosy home.
She went to her home leaving behind her husband at Indira Nagar, Srinagar
considered a safer zone. She cried and wailed to find her home ravaged
and plundered. It was being used as a sanctuary by the Muslim killers.
As she moved from one room of her house to the other, the killers shot
at her in the head. She suddenly ceased to be. The Muslim neighbourhood
was ensured of the booties in the form of the goods left over within the
house and the appropriation of the house itself. She was cremated under
security cover.
Satish Tickoo
Name: Satish
Tickoo
Father's Name:
Prithvi Nath Tickoo
Date of Birth:
26.1.1962
Date of Assassination:
2.2.1990
Residence:
Karfalli Mohalla, Srinagar
Survived by
father (70), mother (65), sister (l8)
He was a social
activist and exerted his every nerve to assist die Pandits in difficulty
or distress. He was doing business He was quite popular with Muslims as
well. Exactly at 7.30 in the morning of the fateful day two Muslim killers
called at his house. His sister smelled a rat and avoided them. The killers
went away but were hiding in the lanes and bye-lanes in which the locality
has sunk. When formed of somebody asking for him, Satish left his home
to see. He peeped into the lanes and in a moment a pistol shot hit him.
On hearing the bullet sound the whole family rushed out into the lane and
found their son lying in a pool of blood. He was rushed to SMHS Hospital
which was less of a hospital and more of a terrorist den. The doctors elated
at the murder of a Kafir declared him dead. Despite security perils, the
then governor, Jagmohan, visited the family which was heavily hit by the
killing of a young man only at twenty-eight.
Rajinder
Kumar Tiku
Name: Rajinder
Kumar Tiku
Father's Name:
P.L.Tiku
Date of Birth:
16.1.1962
Date of Assassination:
16.6.90
Residence: Batapora, Shopian, Anantnag
Survived by
father (46), grand-father (72) grandmother (64)
He was a young
man in twenties and was not married. He was undergoing training in accoutancy
in the sub-district hospital, Shopian. He was a post-graduate in Education.
While returning from the hospital he sat at a shop for a chat with the
shop-keeper whom he knew at first hand. The killers already lying in wait
showered him with bullets felling him in his own pool of blood. It was
a broad daylight murder. In the wake of his killing the entire population
of Pandits in the area felt panicked and the pace of exodus that had already
begun got accelerated.
Satish Kumar
Raina
Name: Satish Kumar
Raina
Father's Name:
Niranjan Nath Raina
Date of Birth:
6.9.1966
Date of Assassination:
25.6.90
Residence:
Gupta Ganga, Ishbar, Nishat
Survived by
father (50), brothers (16,10), mother (48)
He was in his
twenties and was yet to be married. A teacher's son, he had passed
a course in welding from I.I.T Srinagar and was unemployed. He boarded
a bus for the city and was kidnapped soon after he reached the city. He
was brutally tortured, strangulated and then hacked into pieces. His hacked
body huddled in a sack was recovered by a police posse at Ganderbal. His
last rites were performed by police. The miserable parents wailed and wept,
but were not given the hacked body. The Muslim murderers were adding the
real chapter to the gory book of Kashmiriayat. The papers reported that
his ghastly death was owned by the hounds of Hizbul Mujjhideen.
Jagar Nath
Koul
Name: Jagar Nath
Koul
Father's Name:
Ram Chand Koul
Date of Birth:
7.8.1940
Date of Assassination:
20.4.1990
Residence: Qazigund, Anantnag
Survived by
wife (46), mother (90), sons (30,26)
He was a head
constable No.272, posted at the Police Lines Anantnag He was put on duty
at Khanabal crossing. The Muslim terrorists working in collaboration with
the police forces pumped bullets into him. He fell drenched in blood and
was carried to the hospital where he died for want of proper medical care
and attention. It is said that there was immense jubilation in Police lines
as most of his colleagues were fully aware of his fate.
Ramesh Peer
Name: Ramesh Peer
Father's Name:
Gopi Nath Peer
Date of Birth:
14.5.1961
Date of Assassination:
6.5.90
Residence: Vicharnag, Srinagar
Survived by
father (65), mother (57), three brothers, three sisters.
He was a junior
executive in OAK India Ltd. He was not married. He was forcibly lifted
from his residence and brutally slaughtered.
Bansi Lal
Raina
Name: Bansi Lal
Raina
Father's Name:
Prem Nath Raina
Date of Birth:
14.3.1963
Date of Assassination:
27.5.1990
Residence: Chattergul, Anantnag
Survived by
mother (55), brothers (8,4,2-1/2)
He was a petty
shop-keeper in a distant village of Anantnag. The Muslim terrorists kidnapped
him and put him to a severe torture. It was after 16 hours that his body
was found tied with ropes and rags. He bore deep wounds and curs. His face
was swollen and marked with blood stains.
Ramesh Razdan
Name: Ramesh Razdan
Father's Name:
P.N.Razdan
Date of Birth:
8.2.1952
Date of Assassination:
25.7.1990
Residence: Naidyar, Rainawari, Srinagar
Survived by
wife (37), daughter (14), son (6)
He was a central
government employee. He was kidnapped from his residence and since then
there is no trace of him. His wife has been contacting various government
agencies to know the fate of her husband. She has contacted the police
station at Rainawari, but there has been no satisfactory response to her
quarries. She has sent communications to the Resident Commissioner in Delhi,
but to her dismay he has not been of any material help. She has filed an
FIR with CRPF under a pseudonym for fear of retaliation from the terrorists,
but nothing concrete has been conveyed to her. She shot a representation
to the then Chief Secretary, J&K Government, who had not the courtesy
to reply to her under his own seal and signature just to allay her concerns.
She was scribbled some vague information through a junior officer. There
was a report published in the Kashmir Times about an unidentified body
having been recovered from the Dal Lake. It is presumed that it could be
the body of Ramesh Razdan as he lived at Rainawari on the shores of the
Lake. The terrorists might have tortured him to death and thrown his body
into the Lake waters. But the wife of the killed in her maddening grief
never believes that her husband is dead. She continues to be in search
of her lost husband and the J&K Government with a dehumanised visage
has not come to her assistance.
Prithvi
Nath Koul
Name: Prithivi
Nath Koul
Father's Name:
Raghu Nath Koul
Date of Birth:
14.4.1941
Date of Assassination:
5.6.90
Residence:
Damhal Hanjipora, Kulagam
Survived by
wife (45) daughter(20) sons (25,19)
He was a class-IV
employee of the Postal Department. He was kidnapped and killed by strangulation
near New Nirhama Bridge, Damhal Hanjipora. He was postmortemed at the Damhal
Hanjipora hospital. An FIR was lodged at the local police station, but
was not registered by the station House Officer, Mohammad Yousuf, who is
alleged to be involved in the killing of the hapless Pandit living in sheer
poverty. It was only after lots of pressure by the surviving members of
the killed that an FIR was finally registered bearing No. 42/90 dated 7.8.90
Brij Nath
Shah
Name: Brij
Nath Shah
Father's Name:
Shridhar Shah
Date of Birth:
8.12.1938
Date of Assassination:
27.4.1990
Residence:
Ashram Sadhu Ganga, Kandikhas, Handwara
He was an unassuming
recluse living on tenter-hooks within the premises of the hermitage(ashram)
popularly known as Saadha Malun which had lots of land attached to it.
Prior to his killing many an attack was launched upon the hermitage by
Muslim intolerants with a view to grabbing the shrine. But Brij Nath everytime
frustrated their moves. Once he is said to have repulsed such an attack
by thousands of Muslims by smearing his body with red oxide thereby posing
himself as a fearful apparition. The mob was said to have been led by a
local Mullah who through such an attack on the Hindu shrine was paving
his road to heaven. With the rise in terrorist spate Shah was kidnapped
and tortured. Shah had his name tattooed on his fore-arm The flesh at the
spot was peeled off. His mouth had been stitched and he was strangulated
to death. The rope round this neck could be visibly seen when his body
was recovered.
Chaman Lal
Pandita
Name: Chaman Lal
Pandita
Father's Name:
Maheshwar Nath Pandita
Date of Birth:
4.9.1955
Date of Assassination:
21.5.1990
Residence: Kawoosa, Badgam
Survived by
wife (30), mother (65), daughter (6)
He was a school
teacher posted at Mazhama in the district of Badgam. He was kidnapped and
brutally tortured. His body bore multiple torture marks. He was hanged
to death. His family moved from pillar to post to trace him out. Ultimately
police informed the grieving family of his gruesome assassination by hanging.
Chaman I.al's Muslim neighbours had dissuaded him from abandoning his home.
He was promised full protection. But when he cried for help, nobody came
forward. His killing was a victory for Islam.
Vasudev
Pandita
Name: Vasudev
Pandita
Father's Name:
Gopal Pandita
Date of Birth:
S.7.1941
Date of Assassination:
11.8.1990
Residence: Rohama, Baramulla
Survived by
wife (48), daughter (30), sons (36,34,18)
The Muslim
killers barged into his house and pumped bullets into him. He fell wallowing
in his own blood, evils dragged like a carcass for a long distance and
in presence of the entire village strangulated to death. He was assured
of protection by the Muslims but on the fateful day he faced hostility
from all quarters.
Ram Nath
Koul
Name: Ram Nath
Koul
Father's Name:
Dina Nath Koul
Date of Birth:
22.5.1935
Date of Assassination:
5.8.1990
Residence: Malapora, Habbakadal, SrinagJr
Survived by
wife (50), daughters (30,25), son (28)
He was a head
constable No.12515. He was placed on duty on road-side. The conspiracy
to get him killed was said to have been hatched by his colleagues. When
off duty he went to his residence. Hardly had he changed when the Muslim
killers entered his room and sprayed him over with bullets. His body bore
multiple bullet marks. It was a cruel murder of a Kashmiri Pandit.
Hridey Nath
Bhat
Name: Hridey Nath
Bhat
Father's Name:
Gasha Ram Bhat
Date of Birth:
6.4.1937
Date of Assassination:
10.9.1990
Residence: Wuyann, Pulwama
Survived by
wife (45), daughter (19,13), son (20,14)
He was kidnapped
and straightway slaughtered.
Ashok Kumar
Pandita
Name: Ashok
Kumar Pandita
Father's Name:
Jagar Nath Pandita
Date of Birth:
1.4.1963
Date of Assassination:
12.6.1990
Residence:
Sofi Haman, Sopore
Survived by
father (48), brothers (22 and 17), sisters (15,13,9)
He was a youngman
in his twenties. He had a future ahead. But Muslim armed bigotry had drawn
a blue-print for the total massacre of Pandits. He had yet to partake of
the joys of life and was unmarried. His own friends whisked him away and
shot him dead leaving his parents distraught, despondent and miserable.
Omkar Nath
Raina
Name: Omkar Nath
Raina
Father's Name:
Gwashlal Raina
Date of Birth:
13.6.1949
Date of Assassination:
11.5.1990
Residence: Devi-angan, Srinagar
Survived by
wife (34), daughter (9), mother (60)
He lived at
the foot-hills of the Hari Parbat and would be in the front-ranks of fighting
the vicious forces that always rallied to occupy and grab the lands attached
with the ancient shrine of Chakreshwari. He was a watchful witness of all
the parades that the budding Muslim terrorists would organise on the hill-top.
The government of the day either connived at or collaborated. One evening
his house was stoned till late in the night. He being the only person staying
in the area surrounded by Muslims felt Jittery and fear-stricken. Next
day he made up his mind to march out to unknown destinations. The Muslim
killers having put him on notice were determined to take his toll. He took
out his family and his old mother to board a bus for Jammu and in the way
he was pounced upon and plucked away from his family. He was tortured and
beaten. Burning cigarette bits were used to agonise him. His face was disfigured
and his body was recovered at Alijan Road, Soura.
Ramesh Kumar
Raina
Name: Ramesh Kumar
Raina
Father's Name:
Niranjan Nath
Date of Birth:
4.7.1959
Date of Assassination:
28.5.1990
Residence: Kralyar, Rainawari Srinagar
Survived by
wife (25), daughters (4 in number), father (57), mother (50)
He was running
a small shop in his own locality. He was kidnapped from his home in broad
daylight. His father ran from pillar to post to trace him out. No clues
could be got for days on end. Finally the family was informed that
he was slaughtered and his corpse was hurled into the Jehlum. He was allegedly
killed by the hounds of the Student Liberation Front (SLF).
Shanker
Nath Ticku
Name: Shanker
Nath Tiku
Father's Name:
Gasha Lal Tiku
Date of Birth:
4.8.1920
Date of Assassination:
20.8.1990
Residence:
Badgam
Survived by
wife (60), daughters (37,35,21)
He was fairly
old and was a farmer. The killers attempted to kidnap him from his
residence,
but failed in their sinister design as the old man gave them a slip.
After
remaining away for some time he returned to his home. The killers had
not
given up their witch-hunt. They were waiting for their kill. They saw
him
entering the portals of his house and suddenly pounced on him and
whisked
him away The womenfolk cried and screamed and sought every Muslim
neighbour's
help in getting him retrieved from the clutches of the butchers. But all
in vain. He could not be traced for days together. Some villagers
informed
the family that he had been hanged at Wahaibpora. The police recovered
his body and cremated him within the premises of the Police-station at
Beerva. The family was said to have been shifted to Jammu under security
cover.
Jawahar
Lal Bhat
Name: Jawahar
Lal Bhat
Father's Name:
Vasudev Bhat
Date of Birth:
8.6.1933
Date of Assassination:
5.7.1990
Residence: Darbagh, Harwan, Srinagar
Survived by
wife (55), sons (35,15)
He had a flourishing
seed business and was reluctant to quit his village though Pandits under
panic and threat of life had migrated to the zones across the Bannihal
tunnel. On the assurance of his Muslim neighbour he stayed back in the
house. As fear was in air and had gripped him, he spent his nights in the
neighbour's residence who had assured him full safely. On the fateful night
ten masked Muslim killers forced their entry into the house where he was
seen just going to bed. They dragged him out, took him to his own farm
and pumped multiple bullets into him. His family searched for him and were
shocked to see him wallowing in his own pool of blood. He was cremated
under police protection and his family members were shifted to a hotel
in Srinagar where from they were sent to Jammu under security cover. The
neighbour was in league with his killers. How fake the assurance was?
D.N. Chowdhary
Name: D.N. Chowdhary
Father's Name:
Ram Chand Chowdhary
Date of Birth:
June, 1935
Date of Assassination:
9.8.1990
Residence:
Indira Nagar, Srinagar
Survived by
wife (51), son's (28,25), father (X), mother (X)
He was the
manager of the cement factory at Wuyan. He was kidnapped from his office
in presence of three Muslim officers who could have intervened to save
his life, but did not. The brutalities that were inflicted on the genial
tempered Chowdhary were monstrous. His hands were broken with hammers and
his tongue was chopped off. His whole face was mutilated and scarred by
branding it with a red hot iron-press. His eye balls were plucked out.
His body was thrown at a nearby village, Lethapora on Srinagar Anantnag
highway. He was kidnapped on 8th August, 1990 and the next day his wife
floated an appeal to the Hizbul Mujahideen hounds for his safe release
through 'Srinagar Times'. Her appeal was rejected on the grounds that he
was an Indian agent and on 11th August his body was recovered from roadside.
Chuni Lal
Shalla
Father's Name:
Shyam Lal Shalla
Date of Birth:
4.7.1939
Dare of Assassination:
1.5.1990
Residence: Seerjagire, Sopore, Baramulla
Survived by
wife (43), son (7), daughter (9), father (68), mother (65)
He was an inspector
of police posted near Handwara. He was returning home in a bus which he
had boarded at the bus-stand An accomplice of the killers, said to be a
police-man, a Muslim, accompanied him right from his place of posting The
Muslim gangsters were already informed and aware of his having left in
a bus for Baramulla. They asked for Chuni Lal when the bus was about to
leave Langet, a station on the highway and the accomplice in the bus immmediately
identified him. They dragged him out of the bus, whisked him away and tortured
him for a number of days. He was chopped into pieces, huddled into a sack
and thrown on the streets of Baramulla. A JKLF tag was placed on it forbidding
anyone to pick it up. He was cremated under police protection and the family
shifted to Jammu. His innocent blood has been steaming for justice. It
is also said that the policeman himself unsheathed a dagger and slashed
off his two cheeks sporting Jamaat-i-Islami type beard. He along with other
terrorists battered his face with rods and sticks.
Lassa Koul
Name: Lassa
Koul
Father's Name:
Pt. Raghee Nath Koul
Date of birth:
March, 1943
Date of assassination:
13.2.1990
Residence: Bemina, Srinagar
Survivied by
wife (45), son (17), daughter (19)
He was extremely
cool, calm and soft tempered. His behaviour unto people in and outside
his office was such as would not have earned him an enemy. His cultured
demeanour
and suavy had won him maximum friends and well wishers among the Muslims.
But with the rise of tidal wave of Muslim bigotry he was projected as the
enemy of Islam responsible for launching a cultural aggression on the Muslims
through the programmes telecast from the Television centre, Srinagar which
he headed as its director.
It was late
in the evening that Koul left the premises of the Television centre to
call on his old and ailing parents living in the Bemina colony on the outskirts
of the city. The killers were awaiting his arrival as it is alleged that
some of their accomplices in the centre had informed them of his departure.
No sooner did he step into the door of his house than he was showered with
bullets killing him on the spot. Koul could not see and talk to his parents
whom he served dutifully. His brutal assassination sent shock-waves not
only into the government circles but also into the Kashmiri Pandit minority.
The pace of exodus got accelerated which had begun the day Pandits perceived
a nexus between the terrorists and government of the day. The Union Home
Minister and Information and Broadcasting Minister flew to Srinagar to
offer their condolences to the bereaved family. Shoukat Bakshi of the JKLF
is said to be his killer who during interrogation revealed that Koul was
eliminated at the behest of Aman Ullah Khan based in Pakistan.
The Doordarshan
Kendra, Srinagar is alleged to be infested with the accomplices and collaborators
of the Muslim terrorists. The file replete with the sinister details regarding
some officials of the centre and its over-all functioning has been moving
from one Prime Minister to another but amazingly none has acted to cleanse
the centre of the gross anti-national elements.
Ashok Kumar
Qazi
Name: Ashok
Kumar Qazi
Father's name:
S.N Qazi
Date of Birth:
Date of Assassination:
24.12.1990
Residence: Sheshyar, Habbakadal Srinagar
Survived by:
He was a well
known social activist and had wide contacts with people of varied shades.
He possessed tremendous organizational skills and that was how he had emerged
as the organising secretary of the organization led by H N Jattu. With
a spurt in the killings of Kashmiri Pandits Jattu had established contacts
with the kingpins of the murderous campaign asking them to explain their
attitude unto Pandits and he was silenced by the brutal killings of Ashok
Kumar Qazi.
Qazi was surrounded
by a pack of Muslim hounds when he was found in the local market doing
some shopping. He was shot in his knees, fell down in utter agonising state
and started screaming for help from all present on the scene. He
was thoroughly known to all the Muslim shopkeepers who never felt kindly
to intervene with a view to saving him from the Muslim butchers. They tenaciously
held that his killers were fighting for Islam which meant death for the
Kafirs. The Muslim killers led by Bitta Karate drew pathological pleasure
from Qazi's agonies and in sheer glee started singing and dancing. They
plucked out his hair, slapped him incessantly in the face and spat
at him out of absolute contempt. One of the Muslim brutes opened his trousers,
flaunted his genitals and pissed over him. Meanwhile the siren of a police
jeep could be heard from a distance and the killers pierced him with a
barrage of bullets. They melted away as victors in the Muslim dominated
locality and Qazi's bullet-riddled body was lying for hours together on
the road covered with blood-stained snow.
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