Days after Amir’s father filed a petition in the High court seeking the dead body of his son, the Jammu Kashmir High Court has sought the admin’s response in ten days’ time.
Amir, a resident of Ramban was killed in a “gunfight” in Hyderpora on 15 November last year.
Lateef Magray-father of Amir Magray, one of the four killed in a gunfight, had filed a petition in Jammu Kashmir High Court seeking the body of his child on December 31.
On 15 November, four people were killed in an encounter in the Hyderpora area. Three of the families claimed that their kin killed during the encounter were civilians, not militants.
The bodies of two of them, Muhammad Altaf Bhat and Dr Mudasir Gul, both residents of Srinagar were returned after protests.
Meanwhile CPI(M) Leader, Mohammed Yusuf Tarigami said that it has been proven beyond any doubt that Magray is a civilian. “His father Abdul Latief Magray is a state bravery award winner and now his son has been killed and falsely labeled as a militant which is highly unfortunate,” he said.
“The least the J&K administration could do is to return the body of Magray so that his family could perform his last rites,” Tarigami said.
The family of another slain Mohammad Amir (22) from Ramban earlier told The Kashmiriyat said that their son was an innocent civilian while talking to The Kashmiriyat. Mohammad Lateef Magrey, father of Amir, who works at the P.H.E. Department said that his son worked at Srinagar and refuted the police’s claims that he was a militant.
“When I woke up today morning, I heard that someone had killed my son,” he told The Kashmiryat, adding “I, along with the Sarpanch, came to Srinagar today, but the police there told us that Amir was a militant.”
“Hum toh pakke Hindustani the lekin hum hi militant ban gaye (We were hardcore Indians and they’ve declared us militants now),” Amir’s father said while talking to The Kashmiriyat.
Amir’s father was a counter-insurgent, who claims to have killed the Militants in the past. “I, myself, have killed militants, and now my son becomes a militant?”
“We are migrants. We, too, are militants now? I appeal to the Lieutenant Governor, that we be returned the dead body of our son. We demand justice,” Amir’s father said while talking to The Kashmiriyat.