NOWSHERA: A civil judge-cum judicial magistrate will hear on Tuesday (today) plea of the Rawalpindi police to exhume body of late Maulana Samiul Haq for conducting autopsy as the deceased’s legal heirs opposed the move.

The judge Mohammad Wali Mohmand has already summoned the Nowshera district police officer and legal heirs of Sami, who was killed at his Rawalpindi residence under mysterious circumstances on Nov 2.

His autopsy was not conducted as his family members had opposed it.

The notice issued by the court was handed over to Maulana Sami’s son Maulana Hamidul Haq, who is also acting emir of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-S, by SHO of Akora Khattak police Mohammad Ismail Khan.

When contacted, the SHO confirmed that he had carried the court’s summons to Hamidul Haq at Darul Uloom Haqqania, who gave him some documents to be submitted to the court.

Mr Haq told Dawn that family of late Samiul Haq, religious leaders and JUI-S office-bearers had developed a consensus that they could not even think about exhumation of his body. He said the murder of the Maulana was an international conspiracy and his exhumation would be un-Islamic.

“It is the right of the legal heirs of a deceased whether or not to allow autopsy of a deceased person,” he said.

Published in Dawn, November 20th, 2018