Doctors who conducted the autopsy on Sarabjit Singh’s body at Patti hospital in India said late on Thursday night that the heart, kidneys and stomach were missing from his body.
The absence of the vital organs made the post-mortem examination to determine the cause of Sarabjit’s death inconclusive.
The doctors stated, “We were not anticipating that Pakistan would send the body without these vital organs,” head of the forensic department, Dr Gurmanjit Singh, who was part of the panel of doctors who conducted the autopsy, told The Indian Express.
Dr Singh, however, added that as a standard medical procedure, Pakistan could keep the vital organs for further testing. “We would have to rely on their reports on these organs,” he said.
When asked how reliable the Pakistani reports could be given the trust deficit between the countries, Dr Singh said India could take up the matter with Pakistan and seek to get the organs back. “There is still time to conduct tests on these organs,” he said.
A second doctor on the panel said that without India’s own tests on the organs, the autopsy report would only be of a supplementary nature to the Pakistani report. A panel of five doctors comprising the heads of the departments of forensics, anesthesiology, orthopedics, surgery and pathology from Amritsar Medical College conducted the autopsy on Sarabjit’s body.
Sarabjit’s heart, kidneys, stomach missing: autopsy panel in India
