Latest Sarla Bhat News & Updates

Jammu, June 29 (IANS) More than 35 years after the abduction and brutal killing of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat, her family has blamed successive governments for failing to bring those responsible to justice, saying decades of inaction prolonged their suffering and denied closure to the victims’ kin.Reacting to the filing of a 737-page chargesheet by the Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA), Sarla Bhat’s cousin, P.K. Bhat, recalled the horrors surrounding her killing and allege…

Srinagar, June 29 (IANS) More than 35 years after Kashmiri Pandit staff nurse Sarla Bhat was abducted, tortured and brutally murdered, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) of the J&K Crime Branch said on Monday that it has finally filed a chargesheet in the case before a court of law.SIA has filed a 737-page comprehensive chargesheet before the Court of the Additional Sessions Judge, TADA/POTA, Special Judge designated under the NIA Act, Srinagar, in the abduction, torture and brutal killing…