No family members have come forward to claim the body of former Air Force Flight Lieutenant KM Tahsif Sauri, which was taken to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital for an autopsy after being recovered from the Turag River.
As of 1:30pm on Thursday, the autopsy at the hospital morgue had been completed, but no relatives had arrived.
Sources at the hospital morgue said police brought the body to the morgue around 9pm on Wednesday. Doctors arrived the following morning and subsequently completed the autopsy.
Although a relative accompanied the body and left it at the morgue that night, no relatives had returned to the hospital as of Thursday afternoon. The situation has left the morgue authorities in a difficult position, the sources said.
Constable Hanif of the River Police, who brought the body to the hospital, said, “A relative accompanied the body when I brought it to the hospital. He left the body here last night and went away.”
“No other relative has come to the hospital since then. If no relatives come forward, we do not know to whom we should hand over the body,” he added.
He also said that if no relatives arrived, the body would be kept at the hospital morgue. It would later be buried through Anjuman Mufidul Islam, following the procedures.
The body of Tahsif Sauri was recovered from the Turag river in the capital’s Uttar Khan area around 4:30pm on Wednesday.
