Shopian encounter: Bodies of three Rajouri labourers exhumed, handed to families

The Jammu and Kashmir government has exhumed the bodies of the three Rajouri labourers killed in an encounter in South Kashmir’s Shopian in July. The bodies were exhumed during night in the presence of the families and handed over to them. On September 18, the Army had admitted that the three individuals killed in the Shopian encounter were missing labourers from Rajouri. “Yes, the bodies have been exhumed and handed over to the families,” Guftar Choudhary, a social activist who accompanied the families for the exhumation, told The Indian Express Saturday. “The bodies were exhumed around 5.30 am.” J-K Director General of Police (Dilbagh Singh) had on Friday said the bodies...