HYDERABAD, March 27: The Sindh High Court on Thursday ordered to hold a judicial inquiry into the incident in which the viscera of a corpse had gone missing during an autopsy.
The judicial inquiry was ordered by Mr Justice S. Ahmed Sarwana of the Hyderabad circuit bench of the SHC and would be conducted by the district and sessions judge, Nawabshah.
The order was passed on the constitutional petition of a woman, Ms Jamul, wife of Ghulam Shabbir Solangi.
She informed the court that the marriage of her son, Ghulam Asghar, was solemnized with the daughter of respondent Khamiso Solangi on May 10, 1997. However, the marriage was not consummated under one or the other pretext, she added.
Despite previous marriage, the petitioner said, the respondent had married his daughter off with Rajab Ali Khan, committing an offence under the Hudood Ordinance and the Muslim Family Law.
The petitioner had filed a complaint before the Army Monitoring Cell against this “unlawful act.”
The matter was referred to the then SDM of Nausharo Feroze with instructions for “necessary action.”
Later, she alleged that her son was kidnapped by respondents and blamed them for turning her son into a heroin addict.
She said that she had admitted her son to the hospital of respondent Dr Aijaz Ahmed Cheema, where her son’s health had shown improvement.
Other respondents had somehow, in collusion with Dr Aijaz Cheema, administered poisonous injections, which had resulted in the death of her son, Mr Asghar, whose post mortem was conducted by Dr Yar Ali Jamali, medico-legal officer.
The internal organs (viscera) of the deceased were sent to the government laboratory, Rohri, for chemical examination through the A-section police station, Nawabshah.
The petitioner alleged that police officials, in connivance with other respondents, did not deliver the viscera for chemical examination to the laboratory and the main evidence in this regard was destroyed.
She said that she had approached the concerned police station for registration of her FIR but to no avail. She prayed the court to direct the DPO to lodge her case against the respondents.
Later, the additional advocate-general, Sindh, Masood A. Noorani, stated that under Section 22-A(6) of CrPC, an inquiry could be conducted by the district and sessions judge.