Overview
- The final postmortem, released after an exhumation, ruled out suicide and confirmed Mir Raza died of a gunshot wound, according to police and multiple forensic reports on Monday.
- A two‑member Sindh High Court bench dismissed the family’s petition for a joint investigation team and ordered investigators to complete a fair and expeditious probe using available resources.
- The investigating officer told the court the team is treating the case as murder, has reopened the inquiry from scratch and must file a progress report by September 7.
- A judicial commission has begun public hearings, summoned business partners, friends, rescuers and police officers, and is pressing medico‑legal staff over discrepancies between the initial and final autopsy documents.
- Investigators recovered a spent shell at the scene but the alleged pistol remains missing, much of the material being examined is digital, and the family alleges police delayed the FIR and failed to preserve CCTV and other evidence which has heightened public scrutiny.