HYDERABAD: Girl’s body exhumed

Published August 29, 2007

HYDERABAD, Aug 28: A four-member medical board supervised and exhumed the body of an 18-year-old girl who died under mysterious circumstances in Tando Allahyar on Tuesday.

The sessions court Hyderabad had rejected her father's application seeking directive to the police to not to conduct the exhumation of his daughter, Benazir Jarwar.

The body was buried in Kamaro Sharif graveyard located in the jurisdiction of Missan police of Tando Allahyar district. They exhumed the body under the supervision of a judicial magistrate Tando Allahyar, Mumtaz Ali Solangi.

Initial police investigations into the murder case revealed that the girl had died after taking pesticides following refusal of her father to let her marry to Shafiq.

Her father, Usman Jarwar, how had moved sessions judge claimed that his daughter was doing a course in midwifery in civil hospital Mirpurkhas when she was kidnapped by the accused near Mehboob hotel.

He said, when she returned home she told her parents that after she was forcibly taken away by the accused she was forced to drink some substance and thereafter she fell unconscious.

He said her daughter didn't know what had happened to her after she fainted. When she regained consciousness the accused left her in a village and escaped.

The father maintained that because of her condition he took her to Tando Allahyar hospital where they referred her to Hyderabad and subsequently she was admitted in a Karachi hospital where she died.

Preliminary inquiries claimed that the girl had fallen in love with Shafiq, the owner of the bus in which she used to travel between Tando Allahyar and Mirpurkhas to attend her midwifery course.

“The girl wanted to marry Shafiq but her father refused permission,” said a police source.

She took pesticides and her condition became serious, forcing her parents to take her to hospital and since her condition did not improve she was taken to Hyderabad and then to Karachi without informing the police.

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