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Neelkanth Ganjoo
Indian high court judge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Neelkanth Ganjoo (died 4 November 1989) was an Indian high court judge based in Srinagar who was assassinated by Kashmiri-separatist militants.
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In the late 1960s, as a sessions court judge, he had presided over the trial of JKLF founder Maqbool Bhat in the murder of police inspector Amar Chand in 1966. In August 1968,[1] he sentenced Bhat and one other to death.[2] This sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court of India in 1982. In 1984, after JKLF cadres in Britain murdered diplomat Ravindra Mhatre,[3] Bhat's execution was carried out in Tihar jail. The same year, some militants bombed Ganjoo's house.[4]
On 4 November 1989,[5] three militants shot Ganjoo dead the Hari Singh Street market,[6] near the High Court in Srinagar.[7]
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