Bandipora, June 15: In the case of death of a 35-year-old Woman in Hajin of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on 7 June, the district magistrate has granted permission to police to exhume the body so to verify the family’s claim that she was ‘killed by her husband.’
“We have been granted permission by the DC Bandipora to exhume the body, but the process won’t start until CMO and concerned BMO formulate a team of doctors accompanied by FSL experts under whose supervision all the formalities will take place,” a police official working on the case told Greater Kashmir.
According to the officials, the death of the woman had occurred at her home on 7th June in Bahar Abad village of Hajin, and the police received the complaint of suspicious death five days after her death and accordingly, the case was registered under FIR No. 174 CRPC given the “uncertainty” of the death. The husband has been detained in the case.
The family which includes the parents of the deceased woman from Gund-Jahangir village, and her son have protested and raised allegations that the husband has killed her by poisoning. The family also protested in the press colony on Tuesday, holding posters, they demanded speedy and fair investigations in the case.
The family which included the son and elderly mother of the deceased woman said that they had doubts from the first day when she died as she was in good health.
Suhail Shafi, the young son of the deceased woman told media persons that her mother was in good health the previous day and even brought them lunch when they were busy farming in paddy fields.
“Back at home I had evening tea and left to sleep at my aunts home. She sounded normal when my grandparents phoned her at around 9:30 pm in the night, but the next day my dad came to me telling me that my mother has died,” Suhail said.
The elderly parents said that the couple was alone at hope on a faithful night and that their daughter has been poisoned.
“Despite being suspicious, we didn’t know how she had died. Later, an OPD card of Sumbal hospital which belonged to my deceased daughter at home revealed that she had consumed poison and was advised to go to SMHS, but in return, she was kept home,” the family said.
Suhail claimed that a couple of instances before too her mother had been poisoned and that their also a case going against him in a women’s cell, Baramulla.
The police officials said, “the exhumation followed by the postmortem will reveal if the woman has been poisoned and will help frame charges as the case proceeds”.