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Supreme Court of India

Mohammad Latief Magrey v. The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir & Ors.

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Bench Surya Kant and J.B. Pardiwala JJ.
Decided 12 September 2022

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the relief granted by the High Court as contained in para 21 of the impugned judgment can be termed as just, proper and equitable.

Judgment, page 36

From the headnote

Constitution of India – Arts. 14, 21, 25, 26 and 136 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.176(3) – Exhumation of the dead body – There was an encounter between militants and Police – Four militants were shot including the son of appellant – FIR was registered – During the investigation four bullet ridden unidentified dead bodies were recovered from the site of the encounter – Bodies of two out of four persons were later exhumed and handed over to their relatives for performing their last rites – The bodies of the other two persons (Son of appellant and one other) were buried through Auqaf…

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