J&K conflict
Bodies of two businessmen killed in J&K encounter exhumed, to be returned to families
Srinagar/IBNS: The bodies of two businessmen killed in a controversial encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar were exhumed on Thursday evening amid huge protests.
It happened hours after a magisterial inquiry was ordered into the issue.
Officials said the bodies will be handed over to the families and last rites will be performed during the night.
Mohammad Altaf Bhat and dental surgeon Mudasir Gul were among the four people who were killed in an anti-terror operation at a commercial complex in Srinagar's Hyderpora on Monday.
The families claimed that the deceased were killed in cold blood by security forces and the police refused to hand over their bodies.
The families of two slain Altaf Bhat and Mudasir Gul, who had shops in the Hyderpora complex where the encounter broke, alleged the duo were used as a "human shield and were killed".
Protests erupted in the state soon after political leaders started slamming the administration.
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