Pakistan to charge rape victims Rs 25,000 for medical examination: Reports

In an insensitive move, Pakistan's Forensics Department of Khyber Medical College University proposed a plan to charge rape victims PKR 25,000 for medical examination and PKR 5,000 for an autopsy for local residents of Peshawar. According to ANI, decision was taken at a meeting of Manment Committee held on February 14 in which 17 new charges were approved. proposed plan has even suggested charges for keeping corpses in cold stor for PKR 1,500 per 24 hours and DNA testing for PKR 18,000. 

An official of department said, “For district, Peshawar autopsy cases department will charge Rs 5,000 per case while for cases referred from or districts charges will be Rs 25,000 per post-mortem”. 

official said that for kinship and paternity test PKR 20,000 has been proposed and furr ded, “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 de bodies will be Rs 1,500 per 24 hours”. 

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‘...t a welcome one’ 

According to reports, police department alrey has a limited investigation budget and introduction of such high charges will likely force officials to ask victims’ families to pay for t only autopsy but also DNA tests and medical examination of rape victims. While speaking to Express Tribune, a right activist Tamur Kamal said police stations often ask people to pay for diesel for police vehicles, but w y will also ask general public to pay charges of autopsy and even medical examination of rape victims. Kamal ded that decision by Forensics Department of Khyber Medical College University, refore, is t a welcome one. 

As per reports, decision to introduce recent charges was taken to meet operational expenditures for Forensic Department. It is worth ting that unclaimed bodies are sent to Khyber Medical College University for cold stor by local police where y are stored sometimes for months till ir identification and retrieval by family. 

(With inputs from ANI) 

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