Justice delayed is often described as justice denied. But for the Kashmiri Pandits, it has frequently been forgotten. The decision to charge separatist leader Yasin Malik as the alleged principal conspirator in the abduction, gang rape and murder of Kashmiri Hindu nurse Sarla Bhat comes after thirty-six long years. It is an indictment of the Indian state that allowed one of the most horrific crimes of the Kashmir insurgency to languish in legal limbo. Sarla Bhat was only twen