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This is a picture of a young Lassa Kaul, director of Doordarshan, Srinagar, killed in February 1990 by JKLF terrorists led by Bitta Karate. He had gone to meet his ailing parents on city outskirts where he was shot dead + 
In peak of militancy, Kaul left his wife and daughter at a relative’s place in Ghaziabad. His son was at BITS, Pilani. After Kaul died, two of his DD colleagues were sent to Ghaziabad to bring his family to Delhi airport from where they’d be taken in a BSF plane to Srinagar +
The two staffers reached Ghaziabad late in the night. They had no address. How’d they find the family? Finally, they decided to seek local SP’s help +
The SP heard them. But, finding two people in Ghaziabad? Ultimately the SP deputed scores of policemen to keep a lookout for cries of mourning coming from any house. This is how Kaul’s family was located +
The CBI had created a file on Kaul’s murder, looking at the involvement of potential suspects, especially his colleagues. That file is lost. No government has shown any inclination towards punishing the guilty +
29 years ago, on April 4, 1990, I left Srinagar with my family in a taxi. My parents have never been able to visit even once in all these years.
