In the history of Jammu and Kashmir, the period of 1989-90 was specifically a time when Kashmiri Pandits faced the hatred of their own neighbours from the other community along with the brutal attacks by Islamist terrorists who unitedly plotted against the Hindu community in the valley. There have been massacres and destruction of properties on a large scale targeting Hindus who were made to flee from their homeland leaving their ancestral properties behind to find a safer place to survive, and yet the attacks continued.

 

 

Surinder Kumar Koul, a young Kashmiri Pandit and resident of Batagund in Handwara of Kashmir was murdered on 26th August 1991. Born on May 4, 1971, Surinder Kumar Koul was the son of Kashmiri scholar Som Nath Koul.

 

In the wake of continuous attacks on the community, Surinder Kumar Koul along with his entire family had shifted to Jammu he couldn't escape Muslim terrorism. When he was home, the young boy at the age of twenty had received a call-letter for an interview for the post of teacher for which he had applied earlier. He is said to have been in contact with his Muslim friends who encouraged him to return at least for the interview and assured him of full safety. Against the advice of his parents, and not aware of a major plot againt him by his known ones, young Surinder left for Srinagar. When he de-boarded the bus at Srinagar, the same Muslim hounds who had assured him of safety kidnapped him. Putting him to detestable pains and agonies, the Islamic terrorists tortured him before brutally firing multiple bullets that left him dead.