Srinagar, April 10 -- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday lauded Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for promptly ordering an inquiry into allegations that the Ganderbal encounter was fake.

"The good thing is that there was no attempt to hide anything. The honourable LG promptly accepted our request for a time-bound and transparent probe into the incident," Abdullah told reporters on the sidelines of an event here.

The Army had claimed that a man it killed in an encounter in the Arhama forests on March 31 was a "terrorist".

However, the family of the man - identified as Ganderbal resident Rashid Ahmad Mughal - has refuted the official claim that he had terror links. They alleged that the encounter was fake and have demanded the return...