Sarla Bhat had openly defied militant diktats ordering Kashmiri Pandits to quit government jobs and leave the Valley.
The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Tuesday raided eight locations across central Kashmir while investigating the 1990 killing of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat.
Officials said the searches targeted the residences of individuals formerly associated with the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). Among those was the home of former JKLF leader Peer Noorul Haq Shah, also known as "Air Marshal." The SIA said the operation recovered "incriminating evidence," including documents and digital data, which investigators believe will help unravel the conspiracy behind the murder.
The SIA took over the investigation last year after the original police probe failed to identify the perpetrators. The agency said its renewed efforts are the Jammu and Kashmir administration's resolve to bring the culprits of "heinous terror acts" to justice even decades later.
The Murder Of Sarla Bhat
On April 18, 1990, terrorists kidnapped 27-year-old Sarla Bhat from the Habba Khatoon Hostel of the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Soura, Srinagar. An Anantnag resident and a nurse at SKIMS, Ms Bhat had openly defied militant diktats ordering Kashmiri Pandits to quit government jobs and leave the Valley.
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