Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami

Tarigami was born in 1949. His family name, comes from his village – Tarigam, that lies near National Highway 44 to Jammu.

He was shaped as a communist under the influence of Abdul Karim Wani . In 1967, he was imprisoned for taking up the cause of farmers against the forcible procurement of rice. He went again imprisoned in 1975. While he was in prison, his wife died tragically . The government released him on parole for a month but rearrested him after three days. In 1979, he was the first person to be booked under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act of 1978. He has been imprisoned in various jails like the Sub-Jail Reasi, the very dangerous torture centres of Red-16 and Papa II. In 2005, militants entered the heavily guarded Tulsibagh colony in Srinagar and attacked the homes of Tarigami and the Minister for Education Ghulam Nabi Lone. Lone was killed. (In 2015, ten years after Ghulam Nabi Lone's death, there was another minister in Kashmir with the same name belonging to People's Democratic Party PDP. [6]) In the attack in 2005, Tarigami's guards fought off the attackers, although one of his guards was killed.[7]