NEW DELHI: A Srinagar-based organization Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS) has accused the investigating agencies of shielding the culprits of the 2003 Nadimarg massacre , some of whom it claims, were the local youth from adjoining villages.24 Kashmiri Pandits were massacred in cold-blood in Nadimarg village of south Kashmir on March 23, 2003.The KPSS, a body that fights for the rights of the Kashmiri Pandits who stayed behind in the valley and were not part of the mass exodus of the community in 1990, in a statement issued on Wednesday said that the role of the agencies investigating the Nadimarg massacre was “in question” since not a single conspirator has been arrested or convicted in the last 14 years.The investigating officials “always give us cold shoulder whenever they are asked about their failure to identify and book the culprits who are responsible for this heinous crime,” the KPSS chairman Sanjay Tickoo said.The KPSS claimed that it independently conducted a “ground zero investigation” and found that the massacre was a “well-planned attempt by some armed insurgents and local youths from the adjoining villages” to take “revenge” of the 2002 Gujrat riots and to “celebrate” the Pakistan Resolution Day.As per the KPSS investigation, the gunmen “with youth from the adjoining village(s) visited Nadimarg on 21st and 22nd of March, 2003” to do a recce for their pre-planned attack. “On 23rd of March, 2003 at 10:30 PM, the militants with the active support from the youths of the adjoining villages came in Indian Army uniform and cordoned the KP houses, brought them out, made them to sit on their knees in a line and finally shot at their faces mercilessly killing 24 Kashmiri Pandits,” the statement said.The investigating officer or agency “did not investigate the matter with any intention to book the culprits, for reasons best known to him or them,” the KPSS said.The organization demanded the state government to set up a “Truth and Justice Commission” that can look into all such crimes that took place in the state in the last 27 years.