INDIA: IKHWANI GETS DEATH PENALTY

in Kupwara, India, Principal District and Sessions Judge Rasheed Ali Dar sentenced government gunman Ghulam Mohuiddin Wani to death for murdering four family members and a policeman in a village at Lolab in March 1997. Muhammad Yousuf Ganai, his wife Guljan Begum, two children Muhammad Haneef Ganai, 15, Nasser Ahmad Ganai, 12, and policeman Muhammad Ishaq Bhat were killed in their respective homes.