Shahid Azmi is no more. He led a turbulent and rebellious life. When he was in his mid-teens, he saw his co-religionist slaughtered in the 1992-93 anti-Muslim carnage in Mumbai.
The findings of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Shopian incident of 29 May 2009 appear to be yet another instance – a particularly blatant and strident one – of the mockery of justice that has repeatedly characterised the Indian state’s operations in Kashmir.
