Farooq Ahmed Dar, alias Bitta Karate. Despite openly admitting on camera to killing around 20 Kashmiri Pandits, he has never been convicted. Between 1990 to 2006 he was in preventive detention multiple times and was released on bail in 2006, ironically by a Kashmiri Pandit judge. Since then, he has remained on bail, with the case against him never meaningfully progressing. During this period, he joined JKLF under Yasin Malik, and emerged as a prominent separatist leader. He was even part of the Hurriyat Conference delegation that used to negotiate with India. He has been in jail since 2019, but in connection with a different terror-financing case. Think about it: an individual who confessed to killing 20 people has not even been convicted. By any reasonable standard, such crimes warranted swift capital punishment. Another example how extraordinarily soft, and self-defeating, we have been as a country.
