Staff Reporter
The City Police have failed to conducted autopsy and ascertain identity of as many as 56 unidentified dead bodies, recovered from different areas of the provincial metropolis during last month.
According to a private TV channel, bodies of the so-far-unidentified persons are still lying in government mortuaries. There are 56 unclaimed and unidentified dead bodies including two of them of women.
Jinnah Hospital has five unrecognized bodies while three are present in General Hospital. The police have failed to carried out autopsy of unclaimed bodies for the past month.
Due to the lack of identification and burial of these unidentified bodies, the administrations of the morgues are facing mounting pressure for their appropriate ‘disposal’.
For a long period of time, the burial of nameless bodies has been stopped in ‘Shehr-e-Khamoshan’ cemetery.
According to the preliminary investigation, most of the deceased died of drug abuse, however, after the identity of the dead bodies, the necropsy report will reveal the real cause of the death.
Meanwhile, a police constable was killed by an advocate in the “name of self defence” during a raid on his house in wee hours of Wednesday.
According to police, the raid was conducted at teh house of advocate Sheikh Abdul Haseeb situated in Professor Colony Jhelum.
The Civil Lines Police have arrested advocate Haseeb and his brother on the charges of the alleged murder.
Police have shifted the constable Muhammad Ali’s body to hospital for medico-legal formalities. According to fellow advocates, “Haseeb killed the constable by firing in self-defence.”
They claimed that the police team violated the sanctity of the four walls as they raided the house without any warrant at around 4am. On the other hand, police officials said that police raided the lawyer’s house to arrest a female drug peddler.
