INDIA: HIZBUL MILITANT GETS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
September 4, 2009: a Hizbul Mujahideen militant was sentenced to death by a court in India’s Reasi district for murder. Principal Sessions Judge A K Koul found Abdul Rashid, from Challad village in Mahore, hurled a grenade on the house of special police officer Mohd Mushtaq on March 6, 2008. Mushtaq's 70-year-old father Habibullah and two daughters, Nagina, 14, and Nazia, 10, were killed. (Sources: PTI News, 05/09/2009)
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