A medical board that exhumed the body of Gul Sama, the nine-year-old girl who was allegedly stoned to death after a jirga verdict, a day earlier, concluded on Thursday that it had fractured neck and face and deep injuries on nose, head and torso believed to be caused by heavy stones falling down on her.
The board, led by Liaquat Medical University Hospital Additional Medical Superintendent Dr Qurban Ali Shah, exhumed the body in the presence of the judicial magistrate and a civil judge at Lali Lak graveyard near Karo Kot mountains in Khirthar range, 30 kilometers from Wahi Pandhi town after the girl’s father, Ali Bux Rind, pointed out the grave. He was specially brought by police under tight security.
The doctors examined the body under a tent set up close to the graveyard and took samples of the viscera for chemical examination under heavy police security.
Dr Shah told journalists that report on the body’s examination would be declared after results came of the chemical examination.
He said that the team observed that some heavy articles had hit the girl’s body which had severely damaged her face and neck area. The body’s DNA test would also be carried out to ascertain whether it was the victim’s or not, he said.
Meanwhile, Rind recorded his statement before the medical board and the judge and reiterated that his daughter’s death was accidental. It was being wrongly presumed she had been murdered while in fact, she died after heavy stones fell on her after a landslide, he said.
According to police, Gul Sama was allegedly stoned to death under a jirga verdict in a karo-kari case on Nov 21.
The girl’s father, mother Lilan Khatoon and Maulvi Mumtaz Leghari, who led funeral prayers, have been arrested and investigation is underway.
