NEW DELHI: In what seen as conventional biasness, Indian Supreme Courtroom has dismissed a petition by the daddy of a faux encounter sufferer, Amir Magrey, in search of the exhumation of his physique almost 14 months after his martyrdom in custody in Srinagar, the summer time capital of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and J B Pardiwala in its order stated, “This evaluate petition has been filed in opposition to the judgment dated twelfth September, 2022 whereby the Attraction was dismissed”.
“In our opinion, no case for evaluate of Judgment dated twelfth September, 2022 is made out. Consequently, the evaluate petition is dismissed on deserves,” the highest Indian court docket stated.
On 12 September final yr, the court docket had dismissed the attraction filed by Amir’s father, Mohammad Latif Magrey, in opposition to the judgement by a division bench of IIOJK Excessive Courtroom which had overturned its single bench order directing exhumation of the physique from Wadder Payeen graveyard in Kupwara and its transportation to native village of Amir— Thatharka Seripora in Tehsil Gool space of Ramban district— with “promptitude and with out losing any additional time.”
“Will probably be an excessive amount of at this stage to disinter the physique…The useless shouldn’t be disturbed and a few sanctity ought to be hooked up to the grave,” the Division bench of Justices Surya Kant and J B Pardiwala had stated in its ridiculous order on September 12 final yr.
Amir was amongst 4 individuals martyred by Indian police in Hyderpora space of Srinagar on November 15, 2021. Whereas the stays of two of them— Altaf Ahmad Butt and Dr. Mudasir Gul— had been exhumed and handed over to their kin, the our bodies of Magrey and the fourth particular person had been buried in Kupwara district.
Amir’s household stated he was a civilian and sought the return of his physique.
Whereas refusing Magrey’s plea, the SC bench on September 12 had famous that “virtually 9 months have handed submit burial which is suggestive that the physique is probably not in a deliverable state”. The opposite our bodies, it identified, had been exhumed in two days and would nonetheless have been in a deliverable state.