Kamran Faisal's remains reburied after exhumation

MIAN CHANNU: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officer, Kamran Faisal’s remains were reburied after being exhumed for further examinations, Geo News reported Saturday.

A six-member forensic team from Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) conducted the exhumation after Kamran’s father, Abdul Hameed, reluctantly gave a go-ahead for it.

Kamran Faisal, who was probing a corruption scandal involving the prime minister, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in a government hostel on January 18.

The tragedy came to pass three days after the Supreme Court of Pakistan decreed Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf's arrest in the Rental Power Plants (RPP) scandal.

The first postmortem report said Faisal killed himself by hanging, but his family and friends rejected the suicide theory calling it a murder.

According to head of the forensic team, Rana Naseer Ahmed, Kamran's body was exhumed for an independent examination.

PFSA had sought the exhumation of the body after a controversy was developed on the initial post-mortem report, said he.

In other words the body was exhumed to find out whether Faisal committed a suicide or someone murdered him, experts said.

Rana Naseer also said that the specimen collected from Karman’s body would also be dispatched to an international forensic laboratory to leave no doubt uncleared as far as the forensic investigation is concerned.

The corruption investigation revolves around the accusation that Ashraf pocketed payoffs from RPPs when he was minister for water and power.

The anti-corruption watchdog the National Accountability Bureau has suspended the investigation pending inquiries into Faisal's death.

Earlier, a magistrate, Chaudhry Shafiq Ahmed Shafi had reserved the order of the exhumation of Kamran Faisal’s body after his father gave his consent.

Investigating officer and Inspector of Islamabad Secretariat police station, Mubarak Mand had filed a request in Magistrate’s court to exhume Kamran’s body.

During the hearing of the plea, Kamran’s father Chaudhry Abdul Hameed agreed to recover his son’s body with some reservations.

He demanded that sanctity of the grave and dead body should be maintained during the entire process, and the body should be buried with a new shroud (burial sheet) after the investigations conclude.