Unclaimed bodies: Police exhume body in search of missing man

Alleged kidnap victim's uncle files application in lower courts.

KARACHI:

The police exhumed a body from the Edhi Foundation graveyard on Wednesday while they were looking for a young man who was allegedly kidnapped.

Imran, 25, who hailed from Multan had gone missing in March, this year. He was an employee at the Fauji Fertilizer Company, said his uncle, Nazar Hussain, in an application he filed in the lower courts.

Although a case of kidnapping was lodged at Bin Qasim police station, the officials failed to locate the man, he claimed, adding that a case number 50/13, under section 365 of the Pakistan Penal Code, was lodged against unidentified men.

According to Hussain, the body of a young man, who had drowned, was found three to four months ago in a pool near the factory where Imran worked. Since the body was beyond recognition, the Edhi foundation buried it in its graveyard for unclaimed bodies, he said.

On Hussain’s request, the police exhumed the body along with a team of medical experts in the presence of a judicial magistrate, Malir, Hassan Ali Kalhwar. The doctors took DNA samples from the body to match them with the victim’s parents.

One of the policemen, who witnessed the exhumation, told The Express Tribune that there were torture marks on the forehead of the body. Following the DNA reports, it will be determined whether the deceased was Hussain’s nephew or someone else, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 7^th, 2013.