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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSRINAGAR: Sarvanand Kaul Premi was a poet. Sarla Bhat was a nurse. Both were Kashmiri Pandits who stayed behind when militancy erupted and were killed in 1990. More than three decades later, J&K police\u2019s SIA revived unresolved cases from the Valley\u2019s darkest years. The agency searched Wednesday nine locations in its probe into the abduction-murder of Premi and his younger son, weeks after filing a chargesheet in Bhat\u2019s killing.Premi, 66, a poet, teacher and Gandhian, and Verinder were abducted from their village, Soaf Shali near Kokernag, on Apr 30, 1990. They were shot dead the next day. Five days later, the grief-stricken Kaul family left Kashmir, never to return.State Investigation Agency\u2019s searches were linked to FIR No. 45\/1990 registered at Dooru police station in Anantnag. SIA is pursuing militancy-era cases that had lain cold for decades.On June 29, SIA filed a chargesheet in the abduction, torture and killing of Bhat, 27, a staff nurse in the neonatology ward at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar. She was allegedly abducted by JKLF from SKIMS Habba Khatoon Hostel on Apr 18, 1990, and taken to Illahibagh-Lal Bazar, tortured and shot dead. Her bullet-riddled body was found the next day at Omer Colony Malabagh in downtown Srinagar.Born in Soaf Shali in 1924, Premi joined Khadi Bhandar after completing his education and became associated with Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s Swadeshi movement. His association with Kashmiri poet Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor inspired his literary career. He translated Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s \u201cGitanjali\u201d into Kashmiri and the Bhagavad Gita and Ramayana into Kashmiri and Urdu, and advocated secularism and interfaith harmony.<\/p>\n Share your thoughts in the comments<\/p>\n<\/div>\n