{"id":9078,"date":"2026-04-04T18:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9078"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:48:14","slug":"130025458-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9078","title":{"rendered":"National Conference, Congress seek \u2018decent burial\u2019 of man killed in Ganderbal encounter | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130025546,imgsize-2094377,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ani-file-photo.jpg\" alt=\"National Conference, Congress seek \u2018decent burial\u2019 of man killed in Ganderbal encounter\" title=\"ANI file photo \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SRINAGAR: MLAs of governing National Conference and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/congress\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Congress<\/a> raised the Ganderbal encounter in J&amp;K Assembly on Saturday, demanding that the body of the local man killed in the operation be handed over to his family for a \u201cdignified burial\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>LG Manoj Sinha had on Friday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the encounter after the family of the slain person, Rashid Ahmad Mughal, disputed the Army\u2019s statement related to the encounter, which said an unidentified terrorist had been killed in the operation in the Arahama area on the night of March 31. Rashid\u2019s brother Ajaz Ahmad Mughal termed it a fake encounter and lodged a police complaint seeking a probe.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Raising the issue, NC member and retired high court judge Hasnain Masoodi said: \u201cThe right to a decent burial is a constitutionally recognised right. <!-- -->Under Article 21, the family has the right to perform the last rites. Even as the inquiry proceeds, the body should be returned to the family.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Congress legislator from Bandipora, Nizamuddin Bhat, sought a judicial inquiry, saying an administrative probe was not sufficient. \u201cThe first right of the victim is a decent burial and it should be respected,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Another NC legislator, Mubarak Gul, said the Assembly should condemn the incident. \u201cIn the first place, this should not have happened. Now that it has, the House should express concern,\u201d he said. Mir Saifullah, NC legislator from Kupwara, demanded a govt statement on the incident.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Since 2019, authorities have buried terrorists killed in encounters in designated graveyards in north Kashmir, including Kupwara and Uri, instead of returning the bodies to families, citing concerns over large funeral gatherings.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/national-conference-congress-seek-decent-burial-of-man-killed-in-ganderbal-encounter\/articleshow\/130025458.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: MLAs of governing National Conference and Congress raised the Ganderbal encounter in J&amp;K Assembly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[724,1019,22857,21646,723,719,720,721,6086,22256,722],"class_list":["post-9078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breaking-news","tag-congress","tag-decent-burial","tag-ganderbal-encounter","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-jk-assembly","tag-rashid-ahmad-mughal","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}