KARACHI, Jan 12: A team of doctors along with a judicial magistrate and the police on Wednesday exhumed the remains of a man on a lead given by the alleged underworld don Shoaib Khan.

The sources said that the medical board from the police surgeon's office in the health department was assigned the task of exhuming the body and examining it.

The team, comprising professor of forensic medicine Dr Farhat Mirza, chemical examiner Dr Jalil Qadir, Additional Medical Superintendent of Civil Hospital Dr Hamid Ali and Dr Qarar Abbasi on behalf of the police surgeon went to exhume and examine the remains of the deceased at graveyard near Power House in FB Area. The body was exhumed in presence of a judicial magistrate Farooq Abbasi and the police team headed by DSP Aslam Khan, the sources added.

They said that Shoaib Khan pointed the grave, which was dug up and the remains were retrieved. "We could not find the whole skeleton but there were some bones. The specimen has been preserved for medical examination and DNA test", an official on condition of anonymity told Dawn.

According to FIR No.8/2001 at Gizri police station, Haji Ibrahim alias Bholu, resident of Khayaban-i-Ghazi, went missing in Khayaban-i-Sehr on Jan 08, 2001, and his car was recovered from the parking area of the airport on Jan 09.

The police investigation said that the tracking device, fitted in the car, showed the car was parked near the bungalow of Shoaib Khan which had strengthened the impression that he was allegedly involved in kidnapping of Haji Ibrahim. Later a FIR 08/2001 was registered at Gizri police station in which Shoaib Khan was named by Mohammad Yusuf, brother of the victim.