Bodies of trio exhumed, laid to rest in Rajouri

Jammu/Srinagar, October 3

The bodies of the three youths, killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Army in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district in July, were exhumed and later laid to rest at their hometown in Rajouri district by the family members, officials said on Saturday.

The exhumation was done late on Friday night at an unidentified location in north Kashmir hours after the Director-General of Jammu and Kashmir Police (DGP), Dilbag Singh, said the legal process to exhume and hand over the bodies to their families was on and would be completed soon.

“All the three bodies were buried by their family members in their ancestral graveyards on Saturday evening. The burial took place peacefully,” Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, Chandan Kohli, said.

On July 18, the Army claimed that three militants were killed in Amshipura village in the higher reaches of south Kashmir’s Shopian district.

The Army initiated an inquiry after social media reports indicated that the three men were from Rajouri district in Jammu and had gone missing in Amshipura. — PTI