Died 4 November 1989 | ||
Neelkanth Ganjoo (died November 4, 1989) was a high court judge in Kashmir. 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 November 4, 1989, a group of three people surrounded Ganjoo as he was in the Hari Singh Street market near the High Court in Srinagar. He was shot dead in broad daylight.
Ganjoo was among the early Kashmiri Pandits killed by terrorists in Kashmir.