Court to decide tomorrow on expert panel for postmortems of 11 Mahara Prison inmates
The Magistrate’s order on the Attorney General’s application for the appointment of an expert panel to conduct the post mortem examinations of the inmates who were killed in the Mahara Prison riot was reserved for tomorrow (December 09).
Eleven inmates died in the recent violent events at the Mahara Prison and 08 of them have been diagnosed with COVID-19 infection posthumously.
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