Doctor removed from service for ‘shielding rape suspect’
Medical board says the doctor had issued a wrong medico-legal report.
Medical board says the doctor had issued a wrong medico-legal report. PHOTO: FILE
FAISALABAD:
A doctor was removed from service on Saturday for issuing a false medico-legal report in a child rape case.
The district headquarters hospital’s medical board on Friday found that the report issued by Dr Saima Javaid of Pir Mehal tehsil headquarters hospital was wrong.
“The girl child had been raped contrary to the report issued by the doctor,” it said.
The board sat after the child’s father, *Mushtaq, challenged Javaid’s findings. He said on September 17, 2013 *Altaf, 22, had broken into his house in Basti Odhanwali and raped his thirteen-year-old daughter *Mariya.
He said a dispenser at the hospital, Iftikhar Masih, where *Mariya was taken to was a relative of *Altaf. “The dispenser persuaded the doctor to issue a report that stated the girl had not been raped,” he said.
Pir Mehal Station House Officer Abdus Saboor told The Express Tribune that “on the basis of the report of the medical board, and the complaint filed by the child’s father, police have arrested the suspect.”
He said the suspect had confessed to raping the girl.
“The suspect had been sent to Toba Tek Singh District Jail on 14-day judicial remand,” he said.
*The names have been changed to protect identities
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2013.
A doctor was removed from service on Saturday for issuing a false medico-legal report in a child rape case.
The district headquarters hospital’s medical board on Friday found that the report issued by Dr Saima Javaid of Pir Mehal tehsil headquarters hospital was wrong.
“The girl child had been raped contrary to the report issued by the doctor,” it said.
The board sat after the child’s father, *Mushtaq, challenged Javaid’s findings. He said on September 17, 2013 *Altaf, 22, had broken into his house in Basti Odhanwali and raped his thirteen-year-old daughter *Mariya.
He said a dispenser at the hospital, Iftikhar Masih, where *Mariya was taken to was a relative of *Altaf. “The dispenser persuaded the doctor to issue a report that stated the girl had not been raped,” he said.
Pir Mehal Station House Officer Abdus Saboor told The Express Tribune that “on the basis of the report of the medical board, and the complaint filed by the child’s father, police have arrested the suspect.”
He said the suspect had confessed to raping the girl.
“The suspect had been sent to Toba Tek Singh District Jail on 14-day judicial remand,” he said.
*The names have been changed to protect identities
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2013.