Srinagar, Mar 31: A court here on Friday heard an application for the opening of a criminal trial against separatist Farooq Ahmed Daar alias Bitta Karate in the murder of Kashmiri Pandit businessman Satish Tickoo in 1990, and listed the matter for further hearing on May 4.Advocate Utsav Bains, who has filed the application on behalf of Tickoo’s family, told reporters they hope that they will get justice from the court.Asked whether the video of Karate confessing to killing Tickoo was submitted in the court, the lawyer said it would be done in the course of arguments.“We will do it in the due course of the arguments because in that video Karate says that he killed Tickoo because he was a member of the RSS. It is a submission of a cognizable offence,” he said.He said the other side argued that a PIL by the NGO Roots in Kashmir seeking orders for investigation into cases of killings of Kashmiri Pandits in the valley was dismissed by the Supreme Court.However, he argued that under the criminal law, the family had a right to take the other side for a criminal trial.
