July 19, 2007	Thursday	Rajab 03, 1428

ISLAMABAD, July 18: The hearing of former state minister for communications Mohammad Shahid Jamil Qureshi’s bail application was on Wednesday put off to July 21 due to the lawyers’s strike against the suicide attack at the chief justice’s rally on Tuesday.

The hearing was scheduled in the court of senior civil judge Abid Rizwan Abid.

Sources said some reports of the second autopsy conducted on the body of Kafila Siddiqui were still awaited and after receiving them the police would take further action.

The police also sought legal opinion from the department concerned for addition of further section in the case registered against the former minister.

Likewise, opinion has also been sought on the possibility of registering a case against those who had intentionally or with mala fide intentions committed the mistake during the legal process of the case including the autopsy.

The sources said both the autopsies had failed to establish the actual cause and time of death. But the second postmortem had revealed that her skull was fractured and she was also subjected to torture.

Mustafa Qayyum, the brother of Ms Siddique, told Dawn that he had filed an application in the office of inspector-general of Islamabad police seeking registration of a case against those who had committed the mistake during the investigation of the case.

He said on the light of the second autopsy report a case should be registered against the medico-legal staff of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) for ‘criminal negligence or hiding evidence.’ He said capital section should also be added to the case registered against Mr Qureshi in the light of the second autopsy report.

He alleged that Mr Qureshi was exercising his political connections and during his eight-day physical remand the police had failed to interrogate him.

“In the current situation we have no choice but to protest against sending of Mr Qureshi on judicial remand. Police did not make any effort to extract something significant from the accused despite the second autopsy report,” he said.