RAWALPINDI: Six doctors, including a woman, were booked by the police on Monday for the murder of a young doctor.

The case was registered after the victim’s father knocked the doors of the additional sessions judge (ASJ) Rawalpindi who directed the city police officer to register a murder case against the doctors.

The complainant alleged that his son, Zubair Khan, returned to Pakistan after studying medicine in China and was trying to pass the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) test for a licence to practice in Pakistan.

He said that when his son appeared in the exam and failed to qualify, four doctors approached him and offered to help him clear the exam. These doctors, the father alleged, demanded Rs1.8 million in exchange for their help.

Zubair Khan paid the doctors in the presence of his younger brother and on February 16, 2015 one of the doctors contacted him again and introduced him to two other doctors, a man and a woman.

The father alleged that his son was told to pay Rs200,000 each to the man and woman if he wanted to clear the exam. The victim was also threatened and told that the Rs1.8 million he had already paid would also go waste if he did not pay the two new players.

The complainant claimed that the doctors poisoned his son on February 18, 2015 after taking the money and later the police registered the death as suicide. He accused the police of conspiring against the family as a murder case was registered as suicide. The victim’s father then approached the ASJ who ordered the police to register the murder case against the doctors and present a report on it to the court.

When Iqbal Kazmi, the deputy superintendent of police at Cantonment Circle, was contacted, he told Dawn that a murder case had been registered against the doctors and investigation started. However, no arrests have been made in this regard so far.

Published in Dawn, June 30th, 2015

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