Srinagar, June 16 -- The body of Rashid Ahmad Mughal, a 30-year-old man killed in an alleged encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district earlier this year, has been exhumed and handed over to his family nearly two-and-a-half months after his death.
Family said Rashid's remains were exhumed on June 13 and returned to them before being buried late at night in their ancestral graveyard at Chunt Walivar village in Ganderbal's Lar area. The burial was attended by a handful of relatives.
Senior officials confirmed that the body had been exhumed and handed over to the family before being reburied in his native village. The Ganderbal district magistrate had ordered the exhumation of the body.
Rashid was killed in a forest area of Ganderb...