J K News Today
Oct 29, 2022
In a landmark order on Saturday, the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on allowed a revision petition of J&K Police in 2003 Nadimarg Kashmiri Pandit massacre case. It also ordered that the trial court to ensure expeditious proceedings to conclude the matter at the earliest.
This order has reignited hopes in the Kashmiri Pandit community to seek justice and closure of the cases regarding the mass killings of their members in Nadimarg in Pulwama district on south Kashmir on the intervening night of March 23-24 , 2003.
Terrorists had mounted a savage attack at the Kashmiri Pandit residents of the village , and showered bullets of sleeping men , women and children. Twenty-four of them were killed .
The HC ordered that the “Court below shall now take all necessary measures for ensuring the examination of witnesses concerned by issuing commission and/or recording their statement videoconferencing and shall ensure expeditious proceedings so as to conclude matter at the earliest,” court ordered, as per Live Law.
24 Kashmiri Pandits were killed in Nadimarg village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district in 2003. The main accused Zia Mustafa, a Lashkar-e-Toiba Commander, was killed by security forces in October last year.
