A file photo NAB officer Kamran Faisal. PHOTO: FILE
There were no torture marks or traces of poison found in the body of Kamran Faisal, a National Accountability Bureau officer, according to the much-awaited forensic report by the Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA).
Faisal, an investigation officer in the rental power plants case, was found dead in his hostel room last month. Initial reports ruled his death a suicide. However, his body was exhumed and re-examined for a final report.
Senior officers of the Islamabad police confirmed receiving the report and said it was forwaded to the Medico Legal Officer (MLO) in the Poly Clinic hospital for a final autopsy report.
“The chemical examination was eagerly awaited by the police and now it is clear that the NAB officer took no poison, or other intoxicants before his death,” said a senior police officer.
A five-member board of doctors at the Poly Clinic Hospital earlier declared Faisal’s death a suicide. The board will give its final decision after studying the forensic report by the PFSA this week, the official added.
The Secretariat police would formulate its final report into the death probe after the MLO’s report and submit it before the Supreme Court bench hearing the Kamran Faisal death case.
Meanwhile, the police are also waiting for the results of another forensic examination that the interior ministry sent to the UK last week. Six samples of Faisal’s body were sent abroad for tests after the PFSA delayed the chemical report. The police had claimed that the forensic examination was out of the PFSA’s mandate.
Agency experts exhumed Faisal’s body, asked for his clothes and visited the crime scene to collect fingerprints and other possible evidence. The released forensic report commented only on the chemical examination part and did not include the results of other possible evidence collected by the PFSA.
Furthermore, the report failed to mention whether the DNA taken from the rope used in the hanging matched with that taken from his neck.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 14th, 2013.
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Please stop spreading the disinformation. Tell people what the forensic report says not what a nab officer says..... ISLAMABAD: The forensic report on the death of Kamran Faisal establishes unambiguously that the NAB investigating officer, who was probing the high profile RPP corruption case, was tortured before death. Even the analysis of ligature mark (rope knot mark) on the neck of the deceased showed signs of pre-death and pre-hanging torture. The samples collected by the PFSA after the Feb 2 exhumation of Kamran Faisal’s body shows multiple signs of torture on his body before death. The reports show signs of pre-death tortures on the left side of his neck right underneath the rope knot, right upper arm, lower part (just above wrist) of right forearm posterolate side, right wrist anterior side, right wrist posterior side, forehead and left side of neck. Tthe PFSA report gives the following forensic histopathology examination and conclusion report: “1. Skin & subcutaneous tissue from middle of right upper arm, anterolateral side: Vascular congestion & focal hemorrhages, ante mortem in nature seen. 2. Skin & subcutaneous tissue from lower part (just above wrist) of right forearm posterolateral side: Vascular congestion & focal hemorrhages, ante mortem in nature seen. 3. Skin & subcutaneous tissue from right wrist, anterior side: Vascular congestion seen with extravasations of erythrocytes. 4. Skin & subcutaneous tissue from right wrist posterior side: Vascular congestion seen. 5. Skin & subcutaneous tissue from forehead: Vascular congestion seen. 6. Skin & subcutaneous tissue from ligature mark on left side of neck: Vascular congestion & focal hemorrhages, ante mortem in nature seen.” Source: The News