Ravindra Hareshwar Mhatre was a 48 year old Indian diplomat in the United Kingdom who was kidnapped and later killed in Birmingham in 1984 by British Kashmiri militants who were associated with the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front.

He was held captive for three days in the Alum Rock neighborhood of Birmingham,[1] an area that was predominantly inhabited by British Mirpuris.

[3] The kidnapping was a failed attempt to secure the release from prison of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front's founder Maqbool Bhat.

[5] Mohammad Aslam Mirza, 48, a British citizen and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) militant, was arrested in 2004 in the United States for overstaying his visa.

Mirza told the court he was not involved in the murder and said that he was appalled by the charges and had no recollection of the events of 1984 due to severe memory problems.