Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police to approach Pakistan High Commission (HC) in New Delhi through Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to take back the body of most wanted Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militant Abu Dujana, a resident of Gilgat Balistan, who was killed alongwith another militant in an encounter in Pulwama in south Kashmir Tuesday this week.
We are approaching Pak HC to take back the body of Dujana so that his parents and other family members could see him before burial, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir, Munir Ahmad Khan said.
However, he added if the Pak HC refused to take the body, he (Dujana) will be given proper burial here.
This is for the first time that state police has decided to approach Pak HC to take back the body of a militant since the eruption of militancy in early 90s during which hundreds of Pak and Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK) and other nationals were killed in encounters with security forces in the valley.
The IGP said that Pak HC has been approached to claim the body of Dujana, who belonged to Gilgit-Baltistan in PaK. However, the house owner where Dujana was hiding at the time of encounter yesterday said he (Dujana) had told them that he was from Karachi Pakistan.
We wished Dujana’s parents should get to see their son before burial and for that reason, he said.
Police has refused to hand over Dujana’s body to civilians for burial. However, in the past bodies hundreds of foreign militants were being handed over to local Auqaf for burial in the valley.
The IGP said he would write a letter to his police headquarters for forwarding it to Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to take up the matter with the Pakistan HC in New Delhi.
Dujana, was killed Tuesday this week in a joint operation by Army, police and paramilitary forces in Pulwama.
