LARKANA: The exhumation board led by Chandka Medical College Hospital’s additional medical superintendent Dr Hassan Ali Chandio to help reach a conclusion in the alleged gang rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl belonging to Naudero in the last week of July issued its report on Saturday.

The report said the board was of the unanimous opinion that the cause of her death was combined effects of strangulation, cardiac arrest and brain haemorrhage caused by some hard and blunt object.

Sources at the hospital said that the exhumation report was handed over to the investigation officer of the case.

The board was constituted by the director general of Sindh Health Services on August 5 after the bereaved family had rejected the provisional autopsy report prepared by two women medical officers.

The exhumation board then conducted the examination on Aug 8 and issued its report, signed by its all five members. It confirmed that there was no visible incision mark on the body to indicate a previous autopsy.

On Aug 11, Larkana DIG Irfan Baloch had told a press conference that the findings of exhumation board and the provisional autopsy report were conflicting. He had hinted at action against the women medical officers who had tried to erase the evidence.

Four suspects had earlier been held for their involvement in the gang rape and murder of the girl.

A member of combined investigation team, Inspector Yaseen Tagar, on Saturday revealed that the victim’s family had moved from their Moria Faqeer village to Tag­ar village due to “pressures”.

Published in Dawn, August 18th, 2019