Autopsy report: Man not raped, cause of suicide unknown

KALLAR SYEDAN: The autopsy report of a 23-year-old man failed to reveal the death cause as it found no evidence that the man was raped before he committed suicide in Kallar Syedan.

The deceased, identified as Alamgir, had committed suicide by jumping into a stream in Kallar Syedan in April this year. The victim’s family had claimed that Alamgir was raped before he jumped into a stream and committed suicide. The family lodged a complaint with the local police against four persons and the local police arrested all of the suspects. After investigation, the suspects were sent to Adiala Jail where they were in prison since April.



Following his suicide, the police shifted the body to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Kallar Syedan for medico-legal formalities and on Monday his autopsy report revealed that no evidence of rape was found.

In the complaint regarding the alleged rape, the victim’s father, had stated that his son was returning home after visiting his relatives when four persons, all of whom were identified in the complaint, stopped him near Gangal Village, thrashed him, and then took him to a house where they allegedly sexually assaulted him for hours.



The victim’s father further told the police said that his son later came home in tears and told him about the ordeal. He was crying the whole night. In the morning he went outside to a nearby stream and jumped in, the victim’s father told the police. “I can’t bear to live anymore with this shame,” Z* quoted his son as saying in the complaint. The police later retrieved the body from the stream and shifted it to the hospital. Kallar Syedan SHO Khizer Hayat claimed that the case was somewhat complicated and that the police were investigating the case from different angles.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 16^th, 2016.