Neelkanth Ganjoo

Neelkanth Ganjoo (Assassinated on 4 November 1989) was an Indian high court judge based in Srinagar who was shot dead by Islamist-separatist militants.

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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, he sentenced Bhat and one other to death. This sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1982.

In 1984, after JKLF cadres in Britain murdered diplomat Ravindra Mhatre, Bhat's execution was carried out in Tihar jail. The same year, some militants bombed Ganjoo's house. On 4 November 1989, three militants surrounded Ganjoo as he was in the Hari Singh Street market and shot him dead. near the High Court in Srinagar.