Kamran Faisal committed suicide: post-mortem report

Report says Kamran Faisal committed suicide and was not murdered or tortured.

The final autopsy report has confirmed that  National Accountability Board (NAB) officer Kamran Faisal had committed suicide and was not murdered, Express News reported.

The report further notes that they found no traces whatsoever of drugs prescribed to him by neurologists .

The forensic report that was prepared through a joint collaboration of the Islamabad polyclinic and Dr Abdul Mateen from the forensic department of Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC).

The report said that the injuries found on Faisal’s body were there because of blood clots and not violence.

It further noted that the former NAB official’s fingerprints were found on the knots of the noose from which the officer hanged himself.

The medical report asserts that these injuries occurred because supply of oxygen was cut off and can occur on any part of the body.

The report's authors are of the opinion that these markings do not provide evidence of murder or violence against Faisal.

Through the report, investigators have now also questioned the police proceedings on this case by criticising police investigators for not acting earlier to determine as to who brought the dead body down nor for confirming Faisal’s fingerprint earlier.

Kamran Faisal was the key investigator looking after all proceedings on the rental power case in the Supreme Court. In this case the apex court was investigating corruption in the power and energy sectors and had directly implicated the incumbent Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, who is also a former  minister water and power.