{"id":33668,"date":"2022-03-31T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T05:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytaskeen.com\/?p=33668"},"modified":"2022-03-31T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T05:36:15","slug":"31-years-later-family-of-bitta-karates-first-victim-moves-court-to-reopen-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytaskeen.com\/?p=33668","title":{"rendered":"31 years later, family of Bitta Karate\u2019s first victim moves court to reopen trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 31 years after the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu &amp; Kashmir, the family of Satish Tickoo, the first victim of dreaded terrorist Farooq Ahmed Dar, also known as Bitta Karate, moved a Srinagar court on Wednesday, March 30, to reopen the trial against him.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes on the heels of the massive success of the movie, The Kashmir Files, which showed the plight of Kashmiri Hindus in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Bitta Karate was one of the biggest enforcers of Pakistan\u2019s diktat. A free man now, Karate heads the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), the outfit that led the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits.<\/p>\n<p>In a 1991 interview with India Today\u2019s Newstrack, Bitta Karate admitted to killing \u201cmore than 20\u201d Kashmiri Pandits or \u201cmaybe more than 30-40\u201d in 1990, when the genocide was executed. Bitta Karate had become the dreaded name for Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley and was dubbed the \u201cButcher of Pandits\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Bitta Karate had admitted that his first victim was Kashmiri Hindu Satish Tickoo. On Wednesday, the Srinagar sessions court asked Satish Tickoo\u2019s family lawyer to file a hard copy of their plea by April 16. 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