The Sindh police have booked the former medical superintendent (MS) of the Ranipur Rural Health Centre for facilitating the prime suspect and hiding facts in the housemaid Fatima murder case, the 24NewsHD TV channel reported on Sunday.
Ali Hassan Wassan – the medical superintendent (MS) of the Ranipur Rural Health Centre – has been arrested by police on different charges related to the Fatima torture and murder case.
Wassan had allegedly facilitated the prime suspect Asad Shah by transporting Fatima’s body via an ambulance without conducting the post-mortem. The accused was also facing charges of hiding facts in the case. The accused resigned some days ago after surfing the incident.
Earlier, DIG Police Sukkur said that the orders have been issued to rescue the children, present in the Haveli.
“A police camp will be set up in the haveli to collect DNA samples of all persons,” the police official said. The medical board has apprehended the rape of child maid Fatima, who was killed in Ranipur Haveli, he added.
The body of minor maid Fatima was exhumed for post-mortem examination and the samples of the body were collected on Saturday in the presence of medical board members and a Judicial Magistrate.
“We have decided to take remand of the under investigation former SHO, head muharrir, doctor, and compounder,” DIG said. “The accused will be booked in the case to water down facts and burial of the victim without a post-mortem,” the top police official said.
According to the initial post-mortem report, the body of Fatima was in its initial phase of decomposition. “Her face was blue on the one side and green on the other,” according to the report.
“There were torture marks on the body including eyes, waist, forehead, feet, knees, and hands.” Some samples have been sent to the lab for micro-biology tests,” the report said.