Credibility of autopsy reports

Autopsy reports on the victims of the Holey Bakery massacre showed the extent of brutality suffered by these people. However, I need to stress that I would respect our autopsy doctors more if they didn't appear so 'confused' in other cases of torture or murder. Tonu's death, for example, is still shrouded in mystery. The first autopsy report claimed that they didn't find any evidence of 'foul play' but the subsequent report claimed that the body had injury marks. The autopsy report of Shamarukh Mahjabin, the daughter-in-law of an AL lawmaker, could be another case in point. These two autopsies were done with 'no major findings'. The parents of the victims, however, rejected those reports.

Ahsan Habib

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