The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) files an over-700-page chargesheet naming JKLF chief and banned separatist leader Yasin Malik as the principal accused in the 1990 kidnapping and murder of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat. According to the SIA, Bhat is abducted and later killed in April 1990, with the case described as involving the kidnapping and “brutal killing” of a nurse who was allegedly targeted by terrorists. One outlet reports that the investigation links the killing to suspicion that she was a police informer. Multiple reports say the chargesheet states Malik played the role of the “mastermind” or key accused. In addition to Malik, the reports say charges are also levelled against four accomplices, though details of their identities are not provided in the supplied summaries. The reports describe the development as significant, coming nearly 36 years after the crime, and framed as a step toward accountability for long-delayed violence in terror-affected Kashmir.