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Health minister forms committee to probe Hafizabad 'spinal tap' gang
 [DAWN] Health Minister Saira Afzal Tarar on Tuesday ordered the formation of a committee to investigate five tossed in the clinkBook 'im, Mahmoud! people accused of tapping 'spinal fluid' from at least 15 women in Hafizabad and Gujranwala after tricking them into believing that it was a requirement for participation in a government welfare project. The committee, headed by the area's deputy commissioner, has been given three days to submit its report on the matter. Hafizabad District Police Officer (DPO) Dr Sardar Ghias Gull earlier told Dawn that the five suspects, including one woman, had told their victims that they would help them acquire financial assistance through the prime minister’s dowry fund. The suspects ‐ identified as Nadeem, Muhammad Aslam, his wife Amna Bibi, and Irfan ‐ would allegedly sell the fluid they had tapped to Sajid Masih, who worked as a sweeper at the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital’s kidney ward. The DPO said that Sajid had asked the suspects to provide him with spinal fluid from at least 15 women, which he would then sell abroad. They were promised a sum of Rs40,000 for their efforts. DPO Ghias added that Nadeem, the prime suspect, would pretend to be a DHQ Hospital employee and use that as a cover to tap 'spinal fluid' from women, mostly from financially distressed backgrounds. He said that Nadeem had confessed to conducting a spinal tap on more than 15 women. He said that at least 16 victims of the horrendous scam had so far recorded their statements with the police regarding the extraction of fluid from their spinal cords. All of them said they had been medically examined at the Hafizabad DHQ Hospital. Posted by: Fred 2018-02-14 |
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