Peshawar: A murder case has been registered against Dr. Shakeel Afridi on a public complaint, charging him of operating on a patient that resulted in his death.
According to reports, Naseeba Gul, mother of Salman Afridi, a resident of Sipah area in Bara, lodged a complaint with the political agent some five months ago, accusing Dr Shakeel of conducting a surgery on her son when he was not qualified to do so.
The political administration has registered a case against the accused under sections 302 and 419 of Pakistan Penal Code and section 11 of Frontier Crimes Regulation. A warrant of the case was sent to the superintendent of Peshawar prison.
The complainant pleaded that Dr Shakeel, presently imprisoned in Peshawar jail on charges of having links with a banned outfit, was not a surgeon and unlawfully conducted the surgery that resulted in death of her son. The surgery was conducted in 2007 in the private clinic of Dr Shakeel, situated in Bara.
The administration fixed Dec 20 for hearing the case inside the jail. Political Agent Mutahir Zeb will hear the case.
Afridi, who was arrested immediately after the May 2, 2011 operation on suspicion of helping the American CIA in tracing Osama bin Laden by conducting a fake vaccination campaign in Abbottabad.
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