Medical board formed to determine Dua Zehra real age

 Medical board formed to determine Dua Zehra real age

Medical board formed to determine Dua Zehra real age

KARACHI: The Sindh Health Department formed a medical board to determine the age of Dua Zehra – a resident of Karachi who had gone missing from the city some months ago and was later found to have got married in Punjab, private news channel reported.

The formation of medical board comes after the Judicial Magistrate-East court in the hearing of alleged kidnapping of Dua Zehra ordered further investigation of the case and constitution of a medical board to determine the actual age of the girl.

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Dua in previous court hearings said she is 18 years of age. Also a medical test ordered by the Sindh High Court found she was 17.

During the hearing today, the health department informed local court about the formation of a five-member medical board headed by Dow Medical College Principal Saba Sohail to find true age of Karachi teenage girl.

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MS Services Hospital, Police surgeon and medical experts from Civil Hospital will part of the medical board, the court told.

MS Services Hospital also pleaded with the court to issue orders to present Dua Zehra on June 29; for medical checkup.

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In previous hearing, the investigating officer (IO), had filed a challan before the judicial magistrate; urging the court to quash the FIR in Zehra case after categorizing the case as “C class”.

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