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Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 1: In a fresh shocker in the Nandimarg massacre wherein 24 Kashmiri Pandits were brutally murdered in the Pulwama district in March 2003, successive regimes had kept the terror mastermind Zia Mustafa away from the Court for over 48 times citing “shortage of adequate security”.
Soon after the Nandimarg massacre, Lashkar commander Zia Mustafa, a resident of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, was caught alive by police while three other accused were killed in encounters.
What has some as a shock is that the Jammu and Kashmir government over the years had failed to produce him before the Court for hearings –something which had led to the closure of the case.
Sources said shortage of security was often cited as a main reason for not being able to produce him before the Court. “Was there no police available to take the jailed terrorist to Court… Will this angle also be probed afresh?” asked a prominent Kashmir Pandit.
Official sources said in the fresh investigations, New Delhi has got to know that the “accused No 1” was kept away from the Court hearing for reasons “better known to those at the helm over the years.” Zia, who was jail since, got killed in 2021 when security forces were taking him towards a hideout of the terrorists in connection with a case.
On August 26, 2022, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court ordered to reopen the case of the Nadimarg massacre. In the hearing related to the reopening of the Nadimarg massacre case, HC Judge Justice Sanjay Dhar said: "During the pendency of the trial of the case, the prosecution moved an application before the trial court seeking permission to examine material prosecution witnesses on commission, as according to the prosecution, these witnesses had migrated out of Kashmir valley and they were reluctant to depose before the trial court at Shopian in view of the threat perception."
Adding further he said, "The aforesaid application came to be dismissed by the Principal Sessions Judge, Shopian, vide his order dated 09.02.2011. The said order was challenged by the prosecution by way of Criminal Revision Petition No.18/2011. On 21.12.2011, the aforesaid revision petition came to be dismissed by this Court (High Court)."
On March 23, 2003, Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists came dressed in counterfeit military uniforms to Nadimarg in the Pulwama district and killed 24 Kashmiri Pandits in cold blood by lining them and shooting at them. The victims included 11 men, 11 women and two small boys of which one was 2 years old. |
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