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{{Short description|Indian high court judge}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2020}}
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| honorific_prefix = The [[Honourable]] Mr [[Justice (title)|Justice]]
| name = Neelkanth Ganjoo
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| image = File:Neelkanth Ganjoo.jpg
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| caption = Last known photo
| office = [[Judge]] of the [[Jammu and Kashmir High Court]]
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| birth_date = 16 February 1922 {{citation needed|date=August 2024}}
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| death_date = 4 November 1989 (aged 67)
| death_place = [[Srinagar]], India
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'''Neelkanth Ganjoo''' (died 4 November 1989) was an Indian [[Jammu and Kashmir High Court|high court]] judge based in [[Srinagar]] who was assassinated by Kashmiri-separatist militants.

== About ==
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,<ref>{{cite news
|title=Social Background and Political Ideology of Maqbool Bhat
|author=Gh. Rasool Bhat
|journal=Research Directions
|year = 2015
|url=http://researchdirection.org/UploadArticle/323.pdf}}</ref> he sentenced Bhat and one other to death.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kashmirreader.com/1976-maqbool-bhat-arrested-in-langate/ |title=1976: Maqbool Bhat Arrested in Langate | Kashmir Reader |access-date=19 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619132415/http://www.kashmirreader.com/1976-maqbool-bhat-arrested-in-langate/ |archive-date=19 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This sentence was upheld by the [[Supreme Court of India]] in 1982. In 1984, after JKLF cadres in Britain murdered diplomat [[Ravindra Mhatre]],<ref>{{Cite news|title = BRITISH FIND THE BODY OF INDIAN DIPLOMAT WHO WAS ABDUCTED|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/06/world/british-find-the-body-of-indian-diplomat-who-was-abducted.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 1984-02-06|access-date = 2015-12-09|issn = 0362-4331}}</ref> Bhat's execution was carried out in [[Tihar jail]]. The same year, some militants bombed Ganjoo's house.<ref>{{cite book
|author=Praveen Swami
|title=India, Pakistan and the secret jihad in Kashmir
|publisher=Routledge
|year=2006 |page=157}}</ref>

On 4 November 1989,<ref>{{Cite news|title = Speculation over judge's killing| date=7 December 2001 | url = https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/speculation-over-judges-killing/article27990139.ece|newspaper = The Hindu|accessdate = 7 February 2020}}</ref> three militants shot Ganjoo dead the Hari Singh Street market,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Media on a Fai ride {{!}} The Asian Age|url = http://archive.asianage.com/columnists/media-fai-ride-933|website = The Asian Age|accessdate = 2015-12-09|archive-date = 4 March 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121252/http://archive.asianage.com/columnists/media-fai-ride-933|url-status = dead}}</ref> near the High Court in Srinagar.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Show is Over|url = http://www.kashmirlife.net/show-is-over-issue-48-vol-06-73252/|website = kashmirlife.net|date = 16 February 2015|accessdate = 2015-12-09}}</ref>

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[[Category:20th-century Indian judges]]
[[Category:1922 births]]
[[Category:1989 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Jammu and Kashmir]]
[[Category:Kashmiri people]]
[[Category:Kashmiri Pandits]]
[[Category:Assassinations in India]]
[[Category:Deaths by firearm in India]]
[[Category:1989 murders in Asia]]
[[Category:Place of birth missing]]

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