May 18, 2007	Friday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 01, 1428

RAWALPINDI, May 17: The body of a man, who died last month in Adiala Jail where he was being detained on judicial remand, was exhumed here on Thursday on the orders of a local court to ascertain the cause of death.

The grave of Mohammad Hafiz, 40, at the Kurri Road graveyard was excavated in the presence of Special Judicial Magistrate Ahmad Masood Janjua, District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) Medical Superintendent Khalid Iqbal Malik and the area police.

The body was taken to the DHQ hospital and some specimen were sent to a laboratory in Lahore for chemical examination. The body was buried again after medical examination.

Mr Hafiz died in the jail on April 24 in mysterious circumstances.

The jail authorities claimed he died of heart attack but his father, Chaudhry Mohammad Shafi, in his application to a sessions judge said he saw injury marks on the body when it was given a bath before burial. The sessions judge asked the special magistrate to look into the matter.

The deceased was arrested by the police from Afandi Colony when he was returning home after attending funeral prayers on April 20.

He was charged of possessing 25 bottles of liquor. Next day he was sent to Adiala Jail on judicial remand.

The chemical examiner’s report will be issued in 15 days from Lahore.