Advocate Deepika Singh Rajawat has termed the Jammu and Kashmir High Court’s decision to exhume the body of Amir Magray who was killed more than six months ago along with 3 others in a controversial militant operation at Hyderpora in Srinagar last year, as a “poor man’s victory”.

The decision will rekindle the hope of the common people in judiciary, says the advocate.

Deceased Amir Magray’s father, represented by advocate Deepika Singh Rajawat, earlier this year, filed a petition in JK HC after all efforts to persuade the authorities to return the body of his son failed.

The bodies of Dr. Mudasir Gul and Mohammad Altaf Bhat, who were killed in the same military operation were returned following continuous protests by their relatives, but the administration did not accede to the requests of the Ramban family.

The administration contended before the court that the decision not to hand over the body of the deceased Aamir Magray was taken in the larger public interest and to prevent the law and order problem.