Amritsar, March 10 -- Family of 19-year-old Ranjit Singh, who was killed in a "police encounter" on February 25, finally cremated the body in Adhian village of Gurdaspur district on Monday. The family, which had been protesting for a postmortem examination by Chandigarh-based PGIMER, said it took the cremation decision as the body was getting decomposed.

Ranjit was one of the suspects in the murder of two cops at a police post in Adhian, a crime that was carried out allegedly at the behest of Pakistan-based handlers.

Earlier, the family, in consultation with different organisations, had refused to cremate the body while terming the encounter as fake. The body had been kept in a freezer at home after it was handed over to the family post...