GUJRAT, Sept 12: A team of diplomats of the British High Commission, Islamabad, on Thursday reached Jhelum to investigate the murder of a British woman of Pakistan origins, who was allegedly killed by her husband.

The grave of the woman will be exhumed on Saturday after fulfilling legal formalities.

The permission for exhumation at a graveyard of Mirpur AJ&K is to be granted by the deputy commissioner in his capacity as district magistrate. Earlier, the body was expected to be exhumed on Thursday.

Saira Rani, 31, a resident of Islamgarh, AJK, had the British nationality and settled in Bradford, UK, where she married Rashid Ashraf, 33, a Pakistani, around a year and a half ago.

The incident took place along Deena’s Jhelum bypass near GT Road on Aug 29. Rashid Ashraf allegedly killed his wife by hitting her head against a stone after some altercation as the couple was returning to their hotel situated along the bridge of the River Jhelum along GT Road after attending a dinner in Mirpur.

The British diplomats met Rashid at the Deena police station. The two-member team headed by a counselor section’s official Albert David also called on Jhelum DPO Afzal Butt.

Sources said the diplomats urged the DPO to conduct transparent investigation of the case since the High Commission was concerned about the security into the accused. The DPO on Thursday talked to the Mirpur DC who provisionally granted the permission and also ensured security besides deputing a magistrate for exhumation.

The DC told the police officer that the official doctor who would conduct the autopsy following the exhumation should come from the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, Deena, due to legal binding.

The DPO told Dawn that a doctor could only be deputed after the direction from the area magistrate (Deena) to THQ Hospital medical superintendent and an application had been moved to the court of the area magistrate to have a direction to get a medical officer deputed.

He said the exhumation was now expected on Saturday.