35 years on, SIA raids in Srinagar over 1990 Murder of Kashmiri Hindu Sarla Bhat

Thirty five years after the horrific murder of Kashmiri Hindu Sarla Bhat, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Tuesday carried out raids at eight locations in Srinagar in connection with her 1990 abduction and killing.

 

 

“SIA raids are going on in 8 locations in Srinagar in the case related to the abduction and killing of Sarla Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit woman, in April 1990,” the SIA said.

 

 

Officials said the searches were conducted at the residences of several people who were formerly associated with the banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF).

 

 

The brutal rape and murder of Sarla Bhat, a lab technician

 

 

She was abducted from the Medical Institute and gangraped for many days before getting dumped on roadside. Kidnapped from the hostel of the Institute itself on April 14, 1990 by a group of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front affiliates, her dead body with bullet wounds was later found on April 19th, in the downtown area of Srinagar. The post-mortem report concluded that she was gangraped before being killed.