Murder and rape of Sarla Bhat

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In April 1990, Sarla Bhat, a Kashmiri Hindu woman was abducted and murdered after being tortured and reportedly raped by Muslim militants of the JKLF during the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir. Originally from Anantnag, Bhat was 27 years old and working as a nurse at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir at the time of her death. She was abducted on 15 April from her hostel in Srinagar, reportedly raped, tortured, killed, and her body mutilated by her captors, who accused her of being a "mukhbir" (lit. 'informer'). The acronym JKLF was engraved upon her body. Her dead body was found on 19 April and handed over the next day to her family in Anantnag, who were unable to provide an appropriate cremation due to threats by militants, harassment and abuse by some locals and a grenade attack on the family’s home. Her death and the grenade attack caused panic in her mostly Hindu ancestral mohalla (lit. 'neighbourhood') in Anantnag—which had been nearly...

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