Cops prevented Benazir autopsy, claims hospital

[tekisui]

New Delhi: A Board Member of Rawalpindi General Hospital has told CNN-IBN that the police chief prevented the autopsy on Bhutto’s body.

Experts at the Rawalpindi General Hospital have also said that due procedure was not followed after Benazir's death. “There is a provision about family consent before performing an autopsy, however, only a judicial magistrate can forgo the autopsy after receiving a written request,” says Athar Minallah, member of the board of management of Rawalpindi General Hospital

The decision not to conduct an autopsy on slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto's body was taken by the Rawalpindi police chief, despite the eagerness of the doctors to perform the autopsy.

Even though a medico-legal report based on a mandatory post-mortem examination is a must in a murder case under Pakistani laws, the autopsy was avoided.

Athar Minallah, a top lawyer and a member of the board of management of Rawalpindi General Hospital told the PTI that no investigation on a death case could be completed without the doctors performing autopsy and conclusively finding the cause of death.

However, Minallah's statement runs contrary to the contention of Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema, who had said on Friday that the autopsy was not done at the request of Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari.

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[lonestarnot]

1. Also hearing reports that doctors are scared to report actual facts.

But with the new video being released, reporting just looks like a formality.

[tekisui]

2. It wasn't until the videos that the doctors have voiced the truth.

They probably feared for their lives.