The Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to challenge the order of J&K and Ladakh High Court to allow exhumation of Amir Lateif Magray’s body who was killed in an encounter in Hyderpora area of Srinagar in November, last year.

On May 27, this year, a single bench of the court had asked JK administration to make proper arrangements for transporting Amir’s body. This order came after victim’s father, Mohammad Lateif Magray, resident of Ramban, had filed a petition.

The court had left the administration free to impose any “reasonable terms and conditions” regarding exhumation, transportation, and burial of the body. Keeping public health and hygiene, the court ordered, if the body is highly putrefied and is not in deliverable condition, the State shall provide Rs. 5 lakhs to Amir’s father for deprivation of rights and give him decent burial as per family traditions, religious obligations and faith.