# J&K police revive probe into 1990 killings of Kashmiri Pandit poet, son 2026-08-12T21:01:02+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Jammu and Kashmir Police's State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Wednesday raided nine locations in south Kashmir's Anantnag and Rajouri districts, reopening a 35-year-old case. The probe concerns the abduction and murder of Kashmiri Pandit poet Sarvanand Kaul Premi, 66, and his younger son Verinder on April 30-31, 1990. Their bodies were found hanging from a tree in Kokernag. The searches come weeks after the SIA filed a chargesheet in the separate killing of Sarla Bhat, a 27-year-old Kashmiri Pandit nurse, who was abducted and shot dead in April 1990. The Times of India reports that Premi was a Gandhian and teacher who translated the Bhagavad Gita and Tagore's Gitanjali into Kashmiri. He was posthumously awarded a gold medal in 1997 by the state government. The Hindu adds that the raids are linked to FIR No. 45/1990 and were conducted ahead of Independence Day amid reported terror threats against the minority community. Authorities are targeting unresolved cases from the early 1990s, when the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley began. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com - thehindu.com Tags: 1990 killings, cold cases, Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmiri Pandits, militancy, SIA probe Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/jk-sia-probes-1990-killings-of-kashmiri-pandit-poet-nurse/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/jk-sia-probes-1990-killings-of-kashmiri-pandit-poet-nurse/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.