HYDERABAD, Nov 16: Under the supervision of the sixth extra joint Civil Judge, Ali Ahmed Jan, a five-member medical board, exhumed the body of a 17-year-old girl, Shahnaz Jatoi, in the graveyard of the Saleh Bhagal village and conducted the autopsy here on Saturday.

The board, headed by medical superintendent, Liaquat University Hospital, Dr Sharafuddin Baloch, has preserved the viscera for final opinion.

The doctors, however, said that the girl had died an unnatural death.

Medico legal officer Dr Amna Soomro said the report would be given on Monday.

The paternal uncles of the deceased girl, Illahi Bux Jatoi and Karam Jatoi, identified the body.

The autopsy was conducted for one hour. A heavy contingent of police was deployed around the graveyard.

Ali Ahmed Jan had called for the constitution of a special medical board after he was directed by District and Sessions Judge Parkash Lal M. Ambwani to supervise the exhumation of the body.

According to the police, Shahnaz, resident of the buffalo colony, was strangulated allegedly by her parents and uncles in the Lalu Lashari village in the first week of November after she had eloped with a boy of her clan, Ghulam Abbas Jatoi.

The family, however, had claimed that the girl had died of electrocution.

The police have detained her parents, uncles and other relatives.