LAHORE: The Manawan police on Thursday registered a murder case against two doctors of Services Hospital following the death of a medical student under mysterious circumstances a day earlier.

The FIR was registered on the complaint of the deceased student’s brother, Adnan Arshad, a resident of Bakar Mandi area.

The complainant stated that his brother, Nauman Arshad, was a final year MBBS student in the Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS).

He said in the FIR that Arshad returned from the Services Hospital and went to his room to take rest. Meanwhile, he said, the suspects, Dr Arshad and Dr Zafar, of the Services Hospital, visited his house and took him along.

Later, Nauman’s family was asked to reach the hospital. As his mother rushed to the health facility, the doctors at the emergency ward told her that her son had expired.

Adnan said that the two suspects fled the scene after Nauman’s death and switched off their cell phones, alleging that they administered some poisonous drug to his brother, resulting in his death.

He expressed his ignorance about the motive behind the alleged poisoning of his brother.

Published in Dawn, May 31st, 2024