Srinagar, July 07: The families of Shopian rape victims on Tuesday rejected a court order to exhume their bodies for a fresh autopsy.
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court had ordered that bodies of the Shopian rape victims be exhumed for DNA test and a fresh post-mortem examination.
But the victims’ families said it was unacceptable to them. They want that the police officials and doctors who fudged the autopsy report be punished first.
The Shopian coordination committee spearheading the campaign for justice made this announcement in Srinagar on Tuesday.
The Shopian twin rapes had put Kashmir Valley on fire that finally forced Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to crack the whip.
The J&K High Court had found the autopsy report inconclusive and DNA report missing. With the police under fire for botching up the probe, the court wanted a fresh autopsy. But it put a rider that exhumation of bodies was dependent on families’ consent.
But, with the family saying “no”, the real culprits may still go scot-free.
–Agencies