Hyderpora Encounter: SC Rejects Plea for Exhumation of Body for Last Rites

The father of Amir Magrey, one of the deceased, had urged the court to allow exhumation of his son's body.

The Supreme Court on Monday, 12 September, refused to allow the exhumation of the body of Amir Magrey, one of the four people killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Hyderpora last year.

Magrey's father had moved the court, urging it to allow his son's body to be exhumed so that he could conduct last rites as per the family's customs and traditions.

However, a bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala said that there was no evidence to prove that Magrey had not been given a decent burial.