MULTAN, May 21: A medical board, constituted on the orders of the Okara district and sessions judge, conducted post-mortem of the military farms’ tenant after exhuming his body on Wednesday.

Ameer Muhammad, 60, was shot dead on May 11 last at Chak 5/4L of the Okara military farms during a tense situation between tenants and the farms’ management. Both the parties accused each other of Ameer’s murder while the police registered a case against Anjuman Mazareen Punjab leaders on the report of some distant relatives of the deceased.

The tenants, who were ‘cautious’ after the Suleman Masih’s episode, reportedly had refused to hand over Ameer’s body to the Okara police. Instead, they buried him in the courtyard of a house at Chak 5/4L and moved the High Court for the constitution of an ‘impartial’ medical board to conduct autopsy.

Meanwhile, the Okara district and sessions judge had formed a medical board comprising Dr Riaz Chaudhry, MS of the Okara DHQ Hospital, Dr Wali Muhammad and Dr Khalid Hayat. The High Court, therefore, disposed of the petition and directed the petitioners to cooperate with the medical board constituted by the DSJ.

The post-mortem was carried out in the presence of area magistrate Hafiz Shaukat and DSP (Saddar) Khan Muhammad Wattoo about 11am. It continued for two hours. The board will submit its report within a couple of days.

Meanwhile, there is no respite in the arrests of tenants and their relatives. The ‘law-enforcers’ have reportedly adopted a new strategy to pressure the tenants to sign lease deeds by involving the husbands of their daughters.

Suleman Masih, 20, was shot dead on Aug 24 last year in the law-enforcers firing at a ‘peaceful’ rally of the Okara military farm tenants. A case was registered against the AMP leaders.