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 teach and 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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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 teach and 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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