Hyderpora encounter: HC orders Jammu and Kashmir admn to exhume third body

Jammu and Kashmir HC on Friday ordered the authorities to exhume the body of Amir Latief Magrey, one of the four people killed in the Hyderpora encounter last year, and hand over the body to his family for burial.

The Jammu & Kashmir high court on Friday ordered the authorities to exhume the body of Amir Latief Magrey, one of the four people killed in the Hyderpora encounter last year, and hand over the body to his family for burial.

The four people were killed in the outskirts of Srinagar on November 15, 2021. While police said all of them were terrorists and buried their bodies in Kupwara in north Kashmir, the families of the deceased dismissed the claims. The Jammu and Kashmir HC on Friday ordered the authorities to exhume the body of Amir Latief Magrey, one of the four people killed in the Hyderpora encounter last year. (HT Photo/ Representational image)

The four people were killed in the outskirts of Srinagar on November 15, 2021. While police said all of them were terrorists and buried their bodies in Kupwara in north Kashmir, the families of the deceased dismissed the claims. Earlier, after a public outcry about the veracity of the encounter, the J&K administration buckled under pressure and exhumed the bodies of two of the deceased — Altaf Ahmad Bhat and Dr Mudasir Gul — and handed them over to their family members. On December 30, Magrey’s family moved the J&K high court seeking his body for burial. Hearing the plea on Friday, the court directed the government to facilitate transportation of his body to his native village in Jammu’s Gool Ramban and asserted that if the body is “highly putrefied” and its exhuming could cause a risk to the public, the administration would pay ₹5 lakh to the family as compensation.