Neelkanth Ganjoo (Assassinated on 4 November 1989) was a
high court judge in Kashmir.
About
In the late 1960s, as a sessions court judge, he had presided over the trial of
JKLF
The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) is a militant separatist organization active in both the Indian-administered and Pakistani-administered territories of Kashmir. It was founded by Amanullah Khan, with Maqbool Bhat also credited as a co- ...
founder
Maqbool Bhat
Maqbool Bhat also spelt Maqbool Butt (18 February 1938 – 11 February 1984)
was a Kashmiri separatist leader who migrated to Pakistan-administered Kashmir and founded the militant group National Liberation Front (Jammu Kashmir), National Lib ...
in the murder of police inspector Amar Chand in 1966. In August 1968, he sentenced Bhat and one other to death. This sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1982.
In 1984, after JKLF cadres in Britain murdered diplomat
Ravindra Mhatre
Ravindra Hareshwar Mhatre was a 48 year old Indian diplomat in the UK who was kidnapped and later killed in Birmingham in 1984 by British Kashmiri militants who were associated with the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front.
Abduction and killing
Ra ...
, Bhat's execution was carried out in
Tihar jail. The same year, some militants bombed Ganjoo's house. On 4 November 1989, three militants surrounded Ganjoo as he was in the Hari Singh Street market and shot him dead. near the High Court in Srinagar.
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20th-century Indian judges
1989 deaths
People from Jammu and Kashmir
1922 births
Assassinations in India
Deaths by firearm in India
1989 murders in Asia