ISLAMABAD, Jan 28: The Government Analysts Laboratories Chemical Examiner, Lahore, has sought photographs from the scene of NAB assistant director Kamran Faisal’s death, his clothes and cummerbund for analysis.

In a letter to the capital police, it has asked for the photos of his body hanging from the ceiling fan, the clothes he was wearing at the time of his death and the cummerbund which was used as a noose.

A police officer told Dawn that a policeman would take these items to Lahore and bring them back because they were case property. He would not say why the agency had sought these items.

The officer said that forensic examination of lungs, heart, brain, spleen liver and stomach contents and DNA test had already been conducted, but the clothes and cummerbund were not examined forensically due to non-availability of a facility to examine them. There was no trace of fingerprints on the clothes and cummerbund, he added.

However, a senior officer working in Lahore said that the newly established Government Analysts Laboratories Chemical Examiner, Lahore, worked under the provincial home department and the body parts of Kamran Faisal were examined at the Chemical Examiner Laboratory in Lahore.

He said the clothes and cummerbund were sought for forensic examination by the Government Analysts Laboratories Chemical Examiner, Lahore, to determine whether they were touched by any other person.

But the examination would only be conducted if hair, blood stain, tear, nail or sweat were found on the clothes and cummerbund.

The officer said that the Government Analysts Laboratories Chemical Examiner, Lahore, had the facility to find resistance marks, but he feared such marks might have been lost because the clothes and cummerbund were being kept in a packet for the past 10 days.

It is not clear why the Government Analysts Laboratories Chemical Examiner, Lahore, has approached the capital police itself.

The capital police officers did not differentiate between the Chemical Examiner Laboratory and Government Analysts Laboratories Chemical Examiner, Lahore. However, the officer in Lahore said there was a possibility that the Government Analysts Laboratories Chemical Examiner, Lahore, wrote to the capital police itself after it was approached by the Chemical Examiner Laboratory for opinion and help.

Meanwhile, Inspector General of Police Bani Amin Khan told newsmen at Shalimar police station that the chemical examiner’s report was yet to be received from Lahore. “The investigators will get the forensic report soon.”

He said that a police team, including ASI Sadaf Basharat, station house officer of the women’s police station, would be sent to Mian Channu to record statements of the family of Kamran Faisal.

The family has already refused to give their statements without having any documents, including the autopsy report.