Talk:2003 Nadimarg massacre

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2003 Nadigram killings of Kashmiri Hindus already exists.Shyamsunder (talk) 06:56, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

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Hi maybe you should correct the title to " Nadimarg" from "Nadigram" and both articles can be merged. Wikireader41 (talk) 16:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Done as suggested. Shyamsunder (talk) 15:13, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Delays and lack of conviction

Court documents viewed by Scroll.in reveal gaps in the police investigation. Take the weapons allegedly seized from Mustafa and the three slain militants. Neither the weapons nor the bullets were sent for forensic examination to ascertain if they had been used in the Nadimarg killings. [T]he court felt there was “some material” against Mustafa, which justified charging (not convicting) him with murder, causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons and possessing illegal weapons. However, the trial dragged on for years, going nowhere. The prosecution was able to produce only nine out of 38 witnesses for examination till 2011. None of them testified against Mustafa.

Since the government had been unable to produce more witnesses, said Mubashir Gatoo, who had been Mustafa’s legal counsel, a trial court in Shopian closed the evidence for the prosecution. The state government challenged the local court’s decision and appealed to the high court that same year. In 2014, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court dismissed the plea after the state failed to appear for a hearing of the petition. The state government then approached the Supreme Court, seeking more time to produce witnesses. In 2015, the Supreme Court directed the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to consider the petition once again. But the prosecution even failed to appear before the high court to argue for the petition, said Gatoo. Thus, on August 11, 2017, the high court dismissed the petition once again, citing "lack of interest". The prosecution filed a fresh review petition in the high court. Meanwhile, it appealed to the Shopian district court to delay hearings in the case until the high court decided on the review petition.
— Zargar, Safwat. "The death of a Pakistani militant near LoC leaves lingering questions about a massacre in Kashmir". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-12-04.

TrangaBellam (talk) 17:57, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

In October 2021, Mustafa, was killed in a police encounter. J&K Police claimed that he was aiding them to locate a terrorist hideout but upon reaching an arms-stash, started firing on them. Little is understood about why some low-brow militant, who has been in a high-security jail for close to two decades, would have contacts with active in-ground militants. J&K Police claim that Mustafa had used a cell-phone to maintain contact with handlers in Pak; yet, no probe has been ordered into how he had access to phone and since when! TrangaBellam (talk) 18:04, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Exactly a year later, in November 2022, the Nadimarg trial has been reopened from thaw. None of the accused inhabits the mortal world anymore but well, there remain the seven constables who had been charged for "dereliction of duty". TrangaBellam (talk) 18:07, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

[O]ne survivor of the massacre, Bhushan Lal, said a delegation of Pandit villagers had recently complained to the local district magistrate that their police guard had been reduced. Some witnesses today said the policemen who were guarding their homes offered no resistance. Either way they were quickly disarmed by the attackers.
— https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/world/kashmir-massacre-may-signal-the-coming-of-widespread-violence.html

TrangaBellam (talk) 18:15, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Anyway, I will remove the blaming of LeT in wikivoice. TrangaBellam (talk) 18:20, 4 December 2022 (UTC)