The mother of Arshad Sharif petitions IHC to stop the delay in the post-mortem report. requests that the dead journalist’s family get the report and that it not be made public without their consent.
Riffat Ara Alvi, the mother of the murdered journalist Arshad Sharif, complained to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday over the lack of a post-mortem report for her son.
As a petitioner, Riffat Ara turned in the biometric verification. She said in her appeal that on November 3, the family’s main contact requested a post-mortem report from the local government.
However, it claimed that the administration had informed them that the police had the report and they did not. She added that when the family’s main contact went to the police, they turned them away as well and advised them to get in touch with the administration.
The petition claims that despite the family’s repeated requests, neither the report nor a denial have been given by the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) management.
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The appeal claimed that “the PIMS and local administration had humiliated Arshad Sharif’s family during this difficult time by keeping them in the dark about the post-mortem result.”
The petitioner asserted that they should be kept updated at all times to maintain openness because she worries that the autopsy will be changed to mislead the truth.
Riffat Ara asked that the entire procedure be carried out without the involvement of any other parties and that the family’s focal point be there for the entire procedure.
The petitioner demanded that the postmortem report be given to Arshad Sharif’s family and not made public without their consent.
Earlier, in a letter addressed to Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Arshad’s mother asked him to convene a powerful judicial commission to look into her son’s wrongful death.
Requests that the report be given to Arshad’s family and not made public without their consent (read more)
She had pleaded with CJ Bandial to “give justice to the family and preserve the matter from controversy and political hypocrisy.”
She claimed that before the investigative team’s departure, federal ministers had “created stories” that are already “on the record” in the media, and that Kenyan police had “three to four times” changed its position on the circumstances surrounding the journalist’s death.
She has asked for a powerful judicial commission “so that the feeling of unease among the Shaheed Arshad Sharif family members as well as the media community be taken care of.”
The mother of the murdered journalist had written that this was her “first and final letter, calling for justice in accordance with the law,” and she hoped it wouldn’t be ignored like her son’s letter had been.
She had said, “Or else I rest my matter to Allah SWT waiting for His justice.”
