Female doctor’s body exhumed
The body of a female doctor who allegedly shot herself in the head in Defence Housing Authority in August was exhumed for postmortem in Mirpurkhas on Thursday.
A seven-member medical board collected samples of her viscera for medical examination in the presence of second civil judge and judicial magistrate Ali Hassan Mari.
Dr Muhammad Ali Qureshi, the board’s head, said they would issue the chemical examination report in 10 to 15 days. The police banned ordinary citizens from entering the Garore Sharif graveyard after the board’s arrival.
Dr M* was buried without a postmortem because initially the family believed that she had died by suicide. However, some of her friends were later suspected of prompting her to take her life.
The Karachi police had booked Junaid Khan, Waqas Hussain Rizvi and Dr Irfan Qureshi and two others for her suicide. Khan and Rizvi escaped arrest after a court rejected their interim bail pleas on September 21.
The deceased’s father expressed hope that the postmortem report will help his daughter get justice.
“The persons who forced my daughter to take her life, I want them to be punished [according to the law] for their deeds,” said the father. He added that his daughter was compelled to take her life by the accused persons. “Khan and his collaborators should be behind bars instead of being set free until the investigation is complete.”
Published in The Express Tribune, October 16th, 2020.