KARACHI: Sindh police department has issued a notification to exhume Dr Maha Ali’s body on October 15.
According to the notification issued by a police surgeon on Tuesday, the exhumation will take place at 11:00 am on October 15.
The SHO Gizri Police Station Karachi has been directed to make all the necessary arrangements in this regard. A five-member medical board has already been formed in this process.
Earlier, the judicial magistrate had ordered Dr. Maha’s grave to be exhumed at the request of Dr Maha’s father, Asif Shah.
Dr Maha Ali had allegedly taken her own life by shooting herself at her residence in Karachi one-and-a-half month ago. Karachi police termed Dr Maha Ali’s death a suicide.
The city police had earlier declared Dr Maha Ali’s death a suicide. The woman doctor had allegedly shot herself at a bungalow in an upscale Karachi neighborhood in August.
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SSP South Sheraz Nazir said, “Twenty-four-year-old Dr Maha Ali was under severe depression when she returned from duty that day (Wednesday) and ended her life.
Nazir said the deceased’s sister and father were at home when the incident took place, and they discovered her body.
The police official said that the circumstances and evidence collected so far concluded that she died by suicide.
He added that police have arrested two people who allegedly provided her with the weapon which she used to end her life. Police said Dr Maha Ali was under “severe mental stress” and spoke about suicide.
According to a police source, she was driven to the act due to alleged torture from a friend. She was working at a private hospital in the upscale Clifton area.
