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    • Archive for February, 1984

    Kashmiri charged Of Indian diplomat's assassination

    BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 25 (1984): A 27-year-old Kashmiri was arraigned today on charges of kidnapping an Indian diplomat who was found shot to death near here three weeks ago. In a brief hearing, the Kashmiri, Abdul Quayyam Raja, was not asked to plead to the charge. No application for bail was made, and he was ordered held until at least Tuesday. The victim, Ravindra Mhatre, 48 years old, who had been assistant commissioner at the Indian consulate in Birmingham, disappeared on Feb. 3. A...

    Posted 10677 days ago.

    Kashmiri Accused in England Of Indian's Fatal Kidnapping

    BIRMINGHAM, Feb 25 (1984): A 27-year-old Kashmiri was arraigned today on charges of kidnapping an Indian diplomat who was found shot to death near here three weeks ago. In a brief hearing, the Kashmiri, Abdul Quayyam Raja, was not asked to plead to the charge. No application for bail was made, and he was ordered held until at least Tuesday. The victim, Ravindra Mhatre, 48 years old, who had been assistant commissioner at the Indian consulate in Birmingham,...

    Posted 10677 days ago.

    Maqbool Butt Hanged

    NEW DELHI, Feb. 11 (1984) - A militant leader from Kashmir who preached secession from India was executed today. Kashmiri militants who seized and killed an Indian diplomat in Britain last Sunday had demanded his release. The hanged man, Mohammed Maqbool Butt, 50 years old, was the founder of the Kashmir Liberation Front, which is based in Britain. The Indian authorities said he organized secessionist groups in Kashmir in the 1960's. In one incident, he allegedly shot and killed an Indian intelligence...

    Posted 10691 days ago.

    Kashmir judge orders hanging Of Maqbool Bhat

    SRINAGAR, Feb 10, (1984): A judge today ordered the execution Saturday of a Kashmir secessionist leader, Maqbool Butt, whose release was demanded by the kidnappers of an Indian diplomat who was slain in England last weekend. The date for hanging the convicted killer was set after President Zail Singh rejected a plea for mercy after the shooting of the 48-year-old diplomat, Ravindra Mhatre.

    Posted 10692 days ago.

    Indian judge orders hanging of Kashmir leader

    blast from the past

    NEW DELHI, Feb. 9 (1984) An Indian judge today ordered the execution Saturday of a Kashmir secessionist leader, Maqbool Butt, whose release was demanded by the kidnappers of an Indian diplomat who was slain in England last weekend. The date for hanging the convicted killer was set after President Zail Singh rejected a plea for mercy after the shooting of the 48-year-old diplomat, Ravindra Mhatre.

    Posted 10693 days ago.

    Indian envoy missing, U.K. fears kidnapping

    LONDON, Feb 6 (1984): An Indian diplomat who disappeared in Birmingham on Friday may have been abducted by a Kashmiri extremist group, British police said yesterday. But detectives leading the hunt for Ranindra Mhatre, 48, told reporters in Birmingham that no underground group had been in touch with them. In New Delhi, authoritative sources said Indian embassies around the world have been put on alert following the claimed abduction, which the Indian Government is taking seriously. Mr. Mhatre, the...

    Posted 10696 days ago.

    British find the body of abducted Indian dilomat

    BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 6 (1984): The body of an Indian diplomat has been found two days after he was kidnapped in a Birmingham suburb, the police said early today. A police spokesman said the body, found in a farm lane about 20 miles southeast of here, had been identified as that of Ravindra Hareshwa Mhatre, 48 years old, the second-ranking official in India's consular office in Birmingham. Mr. Mhatre was abducted while on his way home from work Friday night. The spokesman said the police were treating his...

    Posted 10700 days ago.