The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday allowed the family of Amir Latief Magray, one of the four persons killed in the Hyderpora encounter on November 14-15 last year in Srinagar, to exhume the body from north Kashmir’s Baramulla for burial at his native place in Ramban in the Jammu region.
“Right to life and liberty guaranteed to a citizen by Article 21 of the Constitution of India includes the right of the citizen to live with human dignity and this right to live with human dignity even extends after death though in a limited extent,” Justice Sanjeev Kumar observed.
He said the right of Muhammad Latief Magray, father of the deceased, to claim the body for performing the last rites in his own way and in accordance with local traditions, religious obligations and religious faith, which the deceased professed during his lifetime, cannot be disputed.
