Neelkanth Ganjoo (died 4 November 1989) was an Indian
high court judge based in
Srinagar
Srinagar (; ) is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary ...
who was assassinated by Kashmiri-separatist militants.
About
In the late 1960s, as a sessions court judge, he had presided over the trial of
JKLF founder
Maqbool Bhat
Maqbool Bhat (1938–1984)
was a Kashmiri separatist leader, who went to Pakistan and founded the National Liberation Front (NLF), which was a precursor to the present day Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). He is called the "Father of th ...
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, Bhat's execution was carried out in
Tihar jail
Tihar Prisons, popularly known as Tihar Jail, are a prison complex in India and are one of the largest complexes of prisons in India. There are 9 functional prisons spread over more than 400 acres. Run by Department of Delhi Prisons, the prison ...
. 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
1922 births
1989 deaths
People from Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmiri people
Kashmiri Pandits
Assassinations in India
Deaths by firearm in India
1989 murders in Asia
Place of birth missing