SC dismisses plea seeking probe into killing of prominent Kashmiri pandit by JKLF in 1989
New Delhi, September 19: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a petition seeking a probe into the 1989 murder of advocate Tika Lal Taploo in Kashmir valley by terrorists.
The panel of Justices BR Gavai and CT Ravikumar refused to hear the case, stating that it had not entertained a similar matter that came before it recently.
"We are not inclined to interfere...," said the Supreme Court while granting the liberty to the petitioner to avail of alternate remedies. The petitioner then withdrew the plea.
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Ashutosh Taploo, the son of Tika Lal Taploo, a prominent Kashmiri Pandit and former BJP vice president who was murdered by Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) terrorists at the time, filed the petition.
The petition asked for the protection and rehabilitation of family members, as well as an investigation and prosecution of those involved in his father's killing.
Recently, the top court declined to entertain the plea filed by NGO "We The Citizens" seeking a probe into the killings of Kashmiri pandits during the 1990s.
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