Medical board set up to determine if Maqsood’s body should be exhumed

The Judicial Magistrate (East) has set up a two-member medical board to determine if the body of Maqsood, a citizen who was killed in an alleged police encounter in January, should be exhumed for an autopsy or not.

The investigation officer told the court on Tuesday that Maqsood’s heirs had buried him in Sahiwal district of Punjab and that it was imperative to exhume his body to conduct a post-mortem. On his plea, the court notified the medical board and directed it to submit its report on March 26.

The IO has already submitted a copy to the court of the FIR against Assistant Sub-Inspector Tariq Khan and constables Akbar, Shaukat Ali and Abdul Waheed, which was registered on February 18 on the court’s orders. The magistrate observed that none of the accused had approached it to obtain bail.

It is pertinent to mention that the case had been referred by the judicial magistrate to the Additional District and Sessions Judge (East) as the deceased’s family had claimed that the police had refused to lodge a case against the accused cops for killing Maqsood. Maqsood lost his life on January 20 in alleged crossfire between police and suspected robbers on Sharea Faisal.