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authorized by the government. Only in exceptional circumstances,
postmortem can be conducted where the body is found?
A: Because the DC asked me to do so.
Q: What were the exceptional circumstances which forced you to go to MMC?
A: In this case, the DC had called me saying it was an urgent matter.
Q: The remaining six bodies were lying at the SMC mortuary unattended and
why this discrimination between man and man. The entire attention was
focussed at MMC, with the exception of Ashiq Jatoi's body, where Dr. Ghaffar
Jatoi had intervened?
A: There was no light in the mortuary. No police papers were ready,
otherwise postmortems would have been conducted right away. It was due to
the pressure from the relatives of the late Ashiq Jatoi that the postmortem
was conducted at the M. I. Room at 5 am.
Q: You acted against rules in conducting the postmortem. Are you aware of
the prescribed rules, the place where it should be conducted?
A: I am not aware of any rules.
Q: In Karachi thousands were killed in recent past. Did you visit any other
hospital for postmortem with a team without directions from the
government?
A: No such teams were formed to conduct postmortem in such killings and
deaths. This was the first case in which we went out of our jurisdiction. We
did it because it was a sensitive issue, and the victim was the brother of the
former PM, an MPA, and head of a party, killed in a mass killing.
At this stage, the witness was told about the police rules of 1934 as to who
and where the postmortem should be conducted and the whole passage from
the book was read out to him by the judges.
The second witness examined on Monday was Dr. Ghulam Sarwar Channa,
36, MLO, at JPMC.
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