India has no law on exhumation of bodies, the Supreme Court remarked today, and asked the centre to "consider enacting an appropriate legislation on exhumation"
Religious rights of every person are subject to "public order", the Supreme Court said on Monday while dismissing the plea of a man seeking to exhume the body of his son, who was dubbed a terrorist and killed in an encounter in Kashmir.
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court to take a decision, within one week, on a father s plea to perform last rites of his son who was killed in Hyderpora encounter in Srinagar in November last .
New Delhi, Jun 27: The Supreme Court Monday asked the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to consider either on Tuesday or within a week the plea of a man seeking a direction to exhume the body of his son, who was dubbed a terrorist and killed in an encounter in November 2021 and to permit the family to conduct last religious rites at the same graveyard. A vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and J B Pardiwala also requested the […]