LARKANA: In pursuance of an order issued by the chief justice of the Sindh High Court, a judicial inquiry into the death of a fourth-year MBBS student, Nosheen Kazmi, has finally been instituted.

The body of Ms Kazmi was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room at the Chandka Medical College on Nov 24, 2021 and the Larkana police, on the basis of a “suicide note” found in her room had declared it a suicide case. However, the bereaved family and relatives claimed she had been murdered.

Sources told Dawn on Friday that the home department had on Jan 26 written to the district and sessions court of Larkana requesting that a judicial inquiry into the matter be instituted.

Subsequently, District and Sessions Judge Syed Sharafuddin Shah entrusted the inquiry to the VIth additional sessions judge.

HYDERABAD: A few days ago, a four-member team of the forensic & molecular biology laboratory for DNA testing, functioning at the Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences (LUMHS), had revealed that the sample of male DNA profile of Nosheen Kazmi “shares 50pc alleles with the male DNA profile of Nimrita Chandani”. The latter was a BDS final-year student of the Bibi Aseefa Dental College (BADC) and she was also found dead in her hostel room on Sept 16, 2019.

The lab findings perhaps tend to suggest that the man involved in both cases was the same.

The post-mortem examination report of Nimrita Chandani issued in Nov 2019 had mentioned that she was sexually assaulted before her death and that she died due to asphyxiation. A judicial probe into Ms Chandani’s death was also conducted by a district and sessions judge of Larkana.

Published in Dawn, February 5th, 2022