Hyderpora encounter: SC to hear plea of man seeking exhumation of son’s body

Appearing for Magrey, senior advovate Anand Grover told a vacation bench of justices CT Ravi Kumar and Sudhanshu Dhulia that a single judge bench of the HC had allowed exhuming the remains of Amir Magrey but this was stayed by the division bench.

The counsel submitted that the family wanted to perform the last rites of the deceased.

Seeking urgent listing, he said it would become more difficult to exhume the remains with each passing day.

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The single judge had on May 27 asked the Jammu and Kashmir authorities to take out the remains in the presence of Latief Magrey. The court, however, added that if the body is “highly putrefied and is not in deliverable state or is likely to pose risk to public health and hygiene, the petitioner and his close relatives shall be allowed to perform last rites as per their tradition and religious beliefs in the… graveyard itself” and pay the petitioner Rs 5 lakh to compensate the deprivation of his rights.

Four people were killed in the encounter on the outskirts of Srinagar on November 15, 2021.

Four people were killed in the encounter in Hyderpora, Srinagar, and buried quickly by police in Handwara, 70 km away. Family members of three of them (one was allegedly a Pakistani) contested police claims that they were either militants or had militant links.