ISLAMABAD: Police investigation team has directed Deputy Commissioner (DC) Islamabad to constitute a medical board in order to hold result oriented investigation into mysterious death of the journalist Memoona Arif.
Memoona Arif died in mysterious circumstances in PIMS five months earlier. Certain elements are terming this death a murder. However the PIMS doctors could not give satisfactory replies in respect of this death.
Therefore, police have demanded for constitution of a medical board comprising expert doctors of all departments to ascertain the causes leading to the death of Memoona Arif.
CIA Homicide Unit has informed Deputy Commissioner Islamabad in writing for constitution of medical board.
On January 9, a few days before annual election of National Press Club the police received information that dead body of some unknown woman is lying in PIMS.
Police reached the PIMS and came to know that the body lying therein was of a female journalist who was working with a private TV channel.
Police took the body into its custody and shifted to the mortuary for postmortem. The samples of stomach and other parts of the body were taken and sent to forensic laboratory Lahore.
Sources told Morning Mail that a report as per desire of some influential persons was obtained from Lahore laboratory and handed over to federal police.
After the report was received, CIA Homicide inspector Rashid contacted doctors of PIMS but the doctors regretted to tell about the cause of death.
According to context of police report that an information was received on January 9, 2018 that dead body of a female Memoona Arif was lying in mortuary of PIMS. She was got admitted by one Tahir Masood in PIMS at 10.40 pm on January 07, 2018. During her treatment in the hospital she died. Postmortem of the body was got conducted and report thereof was obtained. The samples were sent to Lahore laboratory to ascertain cause of death.
Report No 00032 was received from Lahore laboratory in respect of these samples which was put before PIMS doctors for perusal.
With reference to this postmortem report No 745 the doctors said that causes leading to her death have not been determined.
On the other hand the sources said both Lahore forensic laboratory and Federal police officers are under pressure in the matter of Memoona death. This is the reason that police have not included the suspected persons in the investigation as per CDR report.