India Today impact: Centre to reopen JKLF leader Bitta Karate's files after expose on Pakistan links
The Ministry of Home Affairs has been asked to re-examine the acquittal of the man who came to be called the "Butcher of Pandits".
In Short
- Home ministry has been asked to re-examine Bitta Karate's case
- A review petition in Supreme Court may be filed
- Bitta Karate had admitted to killing 20 Kashmiri Pandits
After India Today's expose on Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate who admitted creating anarchy in Kashmir Valley at the behest of Pakistan, the Narendra Modi government today said they will reopen the files of the Kashmiri separatist leader.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has been asked to re-examine the acquittal of the man who came to be called the "Butcher of Pandits".
Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir told India Today that the government is committed to ensuring justice for Kashmiri Pandits and the case is being looked at afresh after India Today's expose in #HurriyatTruthTapes.
Government sources say they will also explore the possibility of filing a review petition in the Supreme Court.
The Kashmiri separatist leader was exposed in India Today's special investigative report 'Operation Villains of the Valley' where he was caught on camera confessing to receiving funds from Pakistan.
NIA ALSO PROBING
Acting on India Today's expose #HurriyatTruthTapes, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is probing the transfer of funds to some separatist leaders in Kashmir and have questioned Karate.
India Today had also dug out an archival video of Karate where he made a shocking admission of having killed 20 Kashmiri Pandits.
While giving bail to Bitta Karate in 2006, Justice Wani of the TADA Court had remarked that the charges against the accused were serious to warrant death sentence or life imprisonment but the prosecution showed total disinterest in the case.
Now, 10 years later the Karate files are being reopened as the chorus of justice is getting louder by the day.
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