HYDERABAD, Oct 17: A division bench of Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, comprising Justice Shabbir Ahmed and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, here on Wednesday fined a petitioner Rs10,000 for filing a vexatious petition before the court pertaining to the killing of his daughter.

Before imposing the fine the court considered inquest report, submitted by Tandojam police through State Counsel, Masood A. Noorani. The report certified that the girl had died an unnatural death contrary to the claims of her father that she had died a natural death.

The petitioner, Nagar, a resident of Chokhi, filed the petition against the SHO of Tandojam police station, Nawaz Arain, DSP Tandojam, SSP of Hyderabad, Sixth Extra Joint Civil Judge, Sessions Judge of Hyderabad and Director of Human Rights Board and Ghulam Mustafa through lawyer Shafi Zaigham Qureshi.

He claimed that his daughter, Gul Bano, had died her natural death and was buried in Syed Aman Shah Chukhi graveyard situated in village Chokhi in presence of around 200 people. He had claimed that one of his relatives, Ghulam Mustafa, filed an application before the SSP of Hyderabad, Moazam Jah Ansari, claiming that she had not died her natural death.

The petitioner said that Tandojam police had arrested his brother-in-law, Sobho, and demanded Rs100,000. He said that later a police constable informed him that Sessions Judge Hyderabad had authorized Sixth Extra Joint Civil Judge for the exhumation of the body of Gul Bano for autopsy. He said that it was a fake story that the girl had died an unnatural death and he feared that the police would remove the body of his daughter from the graveyard.

He prayed the court to declare the order of exhumation as illegal. Ghulam Mustafa, who was a police constable, in his application before the SSP of Hyderabad, said that his cousin, Gul Bano, had died an unnatural death as was visible from her body. He said that there were marks of extreme violence all over her body.

He claimed that on August 15, 2001 the girl was taken by her other cousins, Lakhi and Sobho, both sons of Mohammad Ramzan, and his wife subjected her to worse form of torture leading to her death. He said people were afraid to complain against them.

The SSP of Hyderabad requested Sessions Judge for exhumation of the body for autopsy. On October 10, Syed Shakeel Hyder, the sixth Extra Joint Civil Judge, Hyderabad, was appointed to exhume the body. The body was exhumed and its post-mortem was conducted.

On Wednesday the inquest report was submitted before the court which revealed that the body of the girl bore marks of violence.

Additional AG of Sindh, Masood A. Noorani, submitted parawise comments of police officials before the court. They claimed that the body was exhumed in presence of the civil judge and the petitioner. A team of doctors, appointed by the Director General of Health Services, conducted the autopsy.