DADU: A team of doctors exhumed the body of Waziran Chachar in Wadda Chachar village near Manjhand on Thursday, 55 days after the brutal murder of the victim whose mutilated body was found dumped on a roadside in Jamshoro on June 27.

The high-profile team comprising Dr Syed Qurban Ali Shah (head), police surgeon Dr Waqar Ahmed, Dr Waheed Ali, Dr Tanvir Shaikh, Dr Shaheen Siddiqui and Dr Noorullah Larik exhumed the body under supervision of judicial magistrate-I of Sehwan Sadiq Abbasi, carried out the post-mortem and took samples for further tests to ascertain exact cause of death.

Jamshoro ASP Aleena Rajpar, DSP Amir Ali Sher Khaskheli and SHOs of Wadda Chachar and Amri police stations along with a strong contingent of police cordoned off the village graveyard where the victim’s parents, relatives and other people had also arrived to witness the exhumation.

The team took four hours to perform the autopsy and collect samples of the woman’s unborn baby that had also died.

ASP Aleena Rajpar said that the team revisited the crime scene where the victim was found dead 55 days ago. Samples of the unborn baby and other determinants would be sent to laboratories in Karachi for further investigation, she said.

The team’s head Dr Syed Qurban Ali Shah told journalists that after getting the lab reports, they would be able to find out whether the woman was killed after gang rape or she committed suicide.

According to media reports, the body of 25-year-old Waziran Chachar was found dumped near the Indus Highway not far from her Wadda Chachar village. Initial reports said the victim, with her hands tied, was first tortured with some sharp objects and then killed with a blow of some heavy object to her head.

The victim’s parents and rights activists believed she was killed by her in-laws in the name of ‘honour’.

Published in Dawn, August 21st, 2020