Viscera report 9 yrs after death!

Forty-eight cases are pending with courts only because of non-availability of viscera reports, court and police sources said.

Viscera test is done on the sample of a certain organ of a body to find out the cause of death.

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Last year, 39 samples were sent to the viscera laboratory in Dhaka from Magura. But the authorities here are yet to receive report on any of the samples.

They said the lone laboratory usually takes a long time to send reports.

Sources in Magura Sadar police said they got the viscera report on the death of retired police sub-inspector Abdul Khaleque about nine years after the sample was sent.

The sample was sent in December 1994. The viscera report received in June this year said Khalek was "murdered".

Relatives of some victims alleged that local authorities also take much time to send samples to the laboratory.

When contracted, RMO of Magura Sadar Hospital Kari Rezaul Huq denied delay in sending samples. "It is hard for the lone laboratory in the country to send all the reports in time". More laboratories should be set up in divisional headquarters, he said.