Medical Board forms for exhumation of Mustafa Amir  

KARACHI: Following the court’s orders, Sindh Health Department formed three-member medical board for the exhumation and post mortem examination Mustafa Aamir to determine the cause of his death.

According to the notification, a three -member medical board has been formed for exhumation of Muhammad Mustafa Aamir. The exhumation of victim’s will be held on February 21 at 9 am.

The notification states that the Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed(Chairperson) is the head of the Medical Board while Additional Police Surgeon Dr  Sirichand(Convener) and MLO Jinnah Postgraduate Officer Centre Karachi Dr Kamran Khan(Member) will also be part of the medical board.

It should be noted that Mustafa Amir’s mother had requested for a grave, a local court had approved the request for the deceased’s grave in the abduction and murder of Mustafa Amir.

The court in its order has said that the secretary should set up a medical board for the grave, completing the grave and the report should be submitted within 7 days.

Earlier, judicial magistrate  allowed an application seeking the exhumation of the body of Mustafa Amir, who was kidnapped and murdered in DHA, and directed the provincial health secretary to constitute a medical board to ascertain the cause of his death.

The direction came against an application filed by the investigating officer (IO) Muhammad Ali before Judicial Magistrate (West) — in-charge judge — Syeda Urooj Fatimah Naqvi, seeking permission to exhume the victim’s body.