Fahad Aziz torture case: SHC orders inclusion of 4 private doctors to medical board

Earlier board only had govt doctors, MQM requested for inclusion of private medical practitioners to ensure neutrality


Web Desk February 21, 2014
Express News screengrab showing Fahad Aziz.

KARACHI: To ensure neutrality, the Sindh High Court on Friday ordered that the medical board - constituted to prepare a medical report for Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) worker Fahad Aziz - should include four private doctors, Express News reported.

MQM barrister Farogh Naseem had stated that the board only has government doctors and submitted a request in the court to include private doctors as well.

Aziz was arrested by police on February 8 and was released on bail the next day. Aziz had claimed that he was tortured during police interrogation. He was taken to Darul Sehat Hospital after having been detained by the police for about 10 hours.

A few days after the incident, on February 11, MQM had gone to court against, what it called, extrajudicial killings of its workers.

The MQM had claimed that around eight party workers have been killed while over 45 have gone missing in the city.

On the same day, Sindh High Court Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar had ordered that the First Information Report (FIR) and medical report of Fahad Aziz be presented to the court within 15 days.

COMMENTS (6)

Karachiwala | 10 years ago | Reply @goldconsumer first of: dar-ul-seyhat is semi govt hospital, meaning it receive funds from govt. infact the land it is on, was granted by govt. so your bias fake argument about it being private hospital is false. second, you are forgetting that it is in addition to other govt doctors, which means in no way of saying that only doctors from the mqm panel will be deciding. and in last, the spirit of free trial dictates neutrality being maintained in the procedure, so why not mqm should ask for other doctors to be included. considering the ADIG shahid hayat treatment of this incident, a govt doctor will for sure twist the facts in police favor.
Bartski | 10 years ago | Reply Reality dictates that ones beliefs do not make you a better person. Your behavior does.
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