Neelkanth Ganjoo

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]