[Bangla Daily Star] No torture marks have been found on the body of MU Ahmed, a pro-BNP lawyer at the Supreme Court, says the post-mortem report.Myocardial infarction led to the lawyer's death, the report says. MU Ahmed died in a city hospital on August 26 after suffering a massive heart attack in police custody.
If blood circulation gets blocked in a portion of the heart, its tissues are damaged and causes myocardial infarction, said Dr Mizanul Haque, former chief of forensic medicine department of Dhaka Medical College.
Physicians say injuries from mild electric shock and beating cannot be traced in a body 17 to 18 days after the incident.
Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner of police (DB), said a medical board at the DMC conducted histopathology, viscera and forensic tests on Ahmed's body and found that his kidney, lung and heart were infected.
He said the three-member board submitted the report to the police on Thursday.
Police tossed in the clink Ahmed from his Segunbagicha residence on August 11 on charges of assaulting law enforcers and obstructing them from discharging duties on the SC premises on August 2 and 4.
Ahmed's family members alleged that he suffered a massive heart attack due to torture and electric shock in police custody.