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KARACHI: The exhumation of 25-year-old businessman and Institute of Business Administration graduate Mir Raza Ali’s body was postponed on Friday after his family objected to the abrupt reconstitution of the medico-legal board formed for the purpose.
Ali’s body was found in bushes in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar last month, a day after he went missing on July 28. While his family is convinced that he was kidnapped, tortured and murdered, investigators probing the incident continue to build their case around the possibility that he died by suicide.
His family was at the cemetery adjacent to Tariq Road’s Rehmania Masjid for the exhumation today. But, the exhumation was deferred, with the counsel for Ali’s family, Jibran Nasir, telling the media at the site that they had informed the investigating officer that the family had rejected the reconstituted board and would not accept an exhumation by it “under any circumstances”.
Standing alongside Ali’s father, Mir Hussain Ali Khan, Nasir accused the authorities of trying to “bury” the facts and held them responsible for the delay in exhumation.
