CBI Arrests Ex-JKLF Militant For Killing Of 4 Air Force Personnel In 1990

Former JKLF militant Javed Ahmed Mir alias ‘Javed Nalka’ was arrested and later released on bail in connection with the killing of four IAF personnel, including a Squadron Leader, in January 1990, officials said here on Friday. He was arrested on Wednesday and produced before a CBI court, which released him on bail the same day, the officials said. Mir, who used to work in the waterworks department in Kashmir prior to joining militancy in late 1980s, got an alias of ‘Nalka’ (tap in the Kashmiri language).

Four Air Force personnel, including Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna, were killed in a terror attack on January 25, 1990, at Rawalpora, Srinagar. Around 40 others, including a woman, had received serious injuries in the attack. Mir was named as an accused along with others, which included JKLF chief Yasin Malik, who is at present in judicial custody. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had charge-sheeted Malik, Mir, and four others before an anti-terrorism court in Jammu in the same case.