36 Years Later, Raids Across Kashmir In Hunt For 1990 Double-Murder Accused
The State Investigation Agency of Kashmir has conducted raids across nine locations to track down suspects in the 1990 double-murder of poet Sarwanand Koul Premi and his son. This operation is part of a broader effort to resolve militancy-era crimes against the Kashmiri Pandit community.
Why it matters
These investigations represent a long-delayed pursuit of justice for victims of the 1990s insurgency, carrying significant weight for regional communal harmony.
More than three and a half decades after Kashmiri Pandit poet-scholar Sarwanand Koul Premi and his son Virender Koul were dragged from their home and murdered, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) Kashmir launched a coordinated crackdown on Wednesday, conducting simultaneous searches at nine locations across the Valley in a renewed bid to track down their killers and associates still at large.The raids were carried out across nine locations across Jammu and Kashmir - six in some areas of Rajouri district, two in Jammu, and one in Kashmir - in connection with the FIR originally registered at Police Station Dooru in Anantnag and now formally taken over by the SIA as part of its widening probe into unresolved militancy-era killings targeting the Kashmiri Pandit community.
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