Govt orders Magisterial inquiry
STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: Authorities on Thursday exhumed bodies of Mohammad Altaf Bhat and Mudasir Gul, two civilians killed in the Hyderpora encounter, for handing them over to their families, officials said.
The bodies were exhumed after sundown and are likely to be handed over to their families later in the night, they said.
This will be for the first time that the body of a person buried under police watch is returned to his kin since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March last year.
The bodies, accompanied by a police team, are being moved to Srinagar from Handwara where they were initially buried, the officials said.
Meanwhile, the District Magistrate, Srinagar has ordered magisterial inquiry into the encounter at Hyderpora, Srinagar.
An order in this regard has been issued by the District Magistrate, Srinagar here vide No. DMS/Jud/Inquiry/2838-2845/2021 dated 18 November, 2021.
The Additional District Magistrate, Srinagar, Khurshid Ahmad Shah has been nominated as the Inquiry Officer for conducting enquiry into the matter so as to ascertain the facts and circumstances related to the incident and the cause of death.
In a related development, the general public, person in knowledge, of the incident and is willing to record his/ her statement or wants to give any other information about the incident, is being asked that he/ she may attend the office of the Additional District Magistrate, Srinagar in the office complex of Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar Amar Niwas Complex, Tankipora, Srinagar for recording the statements in this matter within 10 days from the date of issuance of this notice from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM during working days, so that the enquiry in the said case is completed.