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Shahid Hayat in his left thigh on Sept 20. The boards had certified that the
injury in the left foot of Sial was self-suffered and his death was homicidal
and the injury of Shahid Hayat was caused by a firearm and it was not a self-
suffered one. When asked why the report was not even typed, Dr Mirza said
the members were in a great hurry to prepare it and hand it over to SP
Shukaib Qureshi who was waiting outside the mortuary.
When the hearing resumed on Tuesday morning, the SDM Saddar,
Mohammad Ali Shah, was recalled to clarify certain remarks he had made on
Monday. The SDM said that on Sunday he had stated before the tribunal that
he had not spoken to Dr Akbar Hussain, senior MLO, about the incident. Dr
Akbar Hussain, 38, in his evidence said the SDM had telephoned him
regarding the incident, in particular, about the injured Shahid Hayat, who
was to have been examined by an MLO at AKUH, a private hospital. The
SDM was recalled on Tuesday morning and he admitted that his earlier
statement regarding his conversation with Dr Akbar was incorrect. He
apologised to the tribunal, and he was warned of the possible consequences
of giving false evidence.
The SDM said his today's statement was correct and the earlier statement was
not, about which the tribunal observed that he was a non-serious man and his
actions and judgment might jeopardise several lives, it will affect some body's
conviction or acquittal wrongly. Dr Akbar Hussain, MLO, was also examined
and in his statement he submitted that Dr Ghulam Sarwar Channa, MLO, had
asked him, as a senior colleague, whether he could go to a private hospital to
examine an injured person, as there was a precedence in the past of doctors
having done so when asked by the police or law- enforcement agency to do
so. The MLO cited three other such incidents when medicolegal experts had
visited private hospitals on being asked to investigate such cases or examine
injuries. The first case pertained to detection of a poisoning case at Hilal
Ahmar on a request made by the police, the second incident pertained to
examination of an injured person at PNS Shifa on a request from the naval
hospital and the third case was for performing an autopsy of Senator Mohsin
Siddiqui at his residence which was done at the request of the police surgeon
and the deputy director of JPMC.
Chairman: What we understand is that you have acted without legal
authority. In future you act on written rules and written orders. In none of
the three cases no written orders were there from the police surgeon. They
had stated that the decision to go to AKUH was on the instructions from M.
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