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In an insensitive transfer, the Forensics Department of Khyber Medical College University proposed a plan to cost rape victims Pakistani Rs 25,000 for medical examination and Rs 5,000 for an post-mortem for the native residents of Peshawar, reported The Express Tribune.
The choice was taken at a gathering of the Management Committee held on February 14 through which 17 new expenses have been authorised. Police Department already has a restricted investigation finances and the introduction of such excessive expenses will doubtless pressure native police stations to ask the victims’ households to pay for not solely post-mortem but in addition DNA assessments and medical examination of rape victims.
“When you go to a police station they often ask you to pay for the diesel for police vehicles. Now they will ask the general public to pay the charges of autopsy and even medical examination of rape victims. So the decision is not a welcome one,” stated a rights activist Tamur Kamal whereas speaking to The Express Tribune.The proposed plan additionally urged expenses for preserving corpses within the chilly storage to Rs 1,500 per 24 hours. For DNA testing Rs 18,000 has been mounted.
“For the district Peshawar autopsy cases the department will charge Rs 5,000 per case while for the cases referred from other districts the charges will be Rs 25,000 per post-mortem,” stated an official of the division, including that for kinship and paternity check Rs 20,000 price has been proposed.
“For drug abuse analysis Rs 3,000 charges have to be paid. Urine tests and alcohol analysis will cost Rs 2,000. Test for poison detection to cost Rs 4,000 while freezer charges for dead bodies will be Rs 1,500 per 24 hours,” he knowledgeable The Express Tribune.
The unclaimed our bodies are despatched to the Khyber Medical College University for chilly storage by the native police the place they’re saved generally for months until their identification and retrieval by the household. The Express Tribune reported that the choice to introduce 17 new expenses was taken to fulfill the operational expenditures of the Forensic Department.
(With inputs from ANI)
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