The Honourable Mr. Justice Neelkanth Ganjoo | |
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Judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court | |
Personal details | |
Born | Neelkanth Ganjoo February 16, 1922 |
Died | 4 November 1989 Srinagar, India |
Neelkanth Ganjoo (Assassinated on 4 November 1989) was an Indian high court judge based in Srinagar who was shot dead by Islamist-separatist militants.
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 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 surrounded Ganjoo as he was in the Hari Singh Street market and shot him dead.[6] near the High Court in Srinagar.[7]