Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 947 · Decided 12 September 2022
Mohammad Latief Magrey v. The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 947 · [2022] 11 S.C.R. 236
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6544/2022
- Decided
- 12 September 2022
- Bench
- SURYA KANT, J.B. PARDIWALA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 176(3); Constitution Article 14, 21, 25, 26, 136
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 - 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
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