PESHAWAR: A two-member Peshawar High Court bench on Wednesday sought explanation from the chief of the Lakki Marwat internment centre for not issuing the death certificate and autopsy report of an internee, who had died at the facility last year.
Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel and Justice Malik Manzoor Hussain directed additional advocate general Mian Arshad Jan to ensure that the death certificate and autopsy report of the deceased, Payo Gul, be handed over to petitioner Gul Math Khan, father of the deceased.
The AAG assured the court that the two documents would be given to the petitioner within a week.
The petitioner said his son, Payo Gul, was taken into custody by the law-enforcement agencies in Orakzai Agency on Nov 3, 2011, only 15 days after his marriage.
He said for many months, his son remained missing and finally they came to know that he was kept at Lakki Marwat internment centre.
The petitioner claimed that on Nov 28, 2013, the body of his son was handed over to them from the internment centre and they were told that he died of natural death.
Payo Gul died at Lakki internment centre last year
He stated that his son was running a shop in Orakzai Agency from which the expenses of the entire family were met.
The petitioner stated that when his son was taken into custody his car and other valuables were also taken away, but the tribal administration of Orakzai Agency was reluctant to return back the said items on pretext that they could not produce his death certificate.
He said the chief of the said internment centre had not been releasing the death certificate to him.
INTERIM RELIEF given to students: The bench granted interim relief to 70 students of private Al-Razi Medical College and
directed the Khyber Medical University (KMU) to temporarily allow them to appear in the MBBS examination.
The bench also directed the registrar of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council to make provisional registration of the said students.
The court was hearing two separate writ petitions one filed by the said students requesting the bench to allow them to appear in the examination.
They also requested that just like the court had issued order in cases of several other students early this year and directed that those should be adjusted in recognised medical colleges and that the court could also order their admission in other recognised and registered colleges.
The students claimed that they were not aware that the college was not recognised and now when the MBBS examination had approached the Khyber Medical University was not willing to include them in the exam.
The second petition is filed by Al-Razi Medical College stating that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council had cancelled their registration in an arbitrary manner. Advocate Iftikhar Gillani and Shmail Ahmad Butt appeared for the college and contended that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council had no authority to cancel registration of a medical college.
A few months ago, around 100 students of the college were adjusted in six recognised medical colleges by the Khyber Medical University on the directives of the high court.
Published in Dawn, July 10th , 2014