Mysterious ‘suicide’: NAB investigator not tortured or poisoned, states report
Initial reports ruled his death a suicide.
A file photo NAB officer Kamran Faisal. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
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.
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.