Kulgam, July 17 -- Ashiq Ali

In a major legal breakthrough, the Sessions Court in Kulgam on Thursday convicted two individuals in a sensational and long-pending murder case from 2013 that had rocked the Motergam area of the district.

The case, registered under FIR No. 343/2013 at Police Station Kulgam, pertains to the cold-blooded murder of Ab Rashid Dar. The court found Ali Mohammad Dar and Muzamili, the wife of the deceased, guilty of committing the crime in a premeditated conspiracy driven by an illicit relationship between the two.

The murder, which initially baffled investigators due to its mysterious nature, was later uncovered to be a calculated plot by the accused duo to eliminate Rashid Dar. The motive behind the murder was to...