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A ten-member medical board on Monday submitted the report figuring out the age of {the teenager} within the courtroom of judicial Justice of the Peace (East) forward of the listening to of a case filed by Zahra’s father Mehdi Ali Kazmi for the dedication of her age.
The take a look at to find out her age was carried out a second time over Kazmi’s petition difficult an earlier take a look at that prompt that the woman’s age was between 16 and 17.
“The consensus opinion relating to the general age of Ms Dua Zahra D/O Syed Mehdi Kazmi is between fifteen to sixteen (15-16) years, nearer to fifteen years, based mostly on bodily examination and dentition,” the report concluded.
The courtroom will maintain listening to on the case on July 7.
Earlier, the lawyer representing the daddy of {the teenager} additionally confirmed that the medical board’s report of ossification and dentition checks carried out on Dua Zahra has acknowledged her age as “nearest to fifteen years”.
Taking to Twitter, Kazmi’s lawyer and social rights activist Jibran Nasir mentioned that the report has negated the outcomes of the earlier medical report that declared the woman to be 16-17 years of age.
He went on to say that the paperwork offered by Zahra’s mother and father — in keeping with which her age is beneath 15 years — have been proved true.
“Dua in actuality is a 14yr little one,” Nasir mentioned.
“The medical board has verified the reality which Mother and father have been telling since 2.5 months. As per the board Dua Zahra is nearest to fifteen yrs of age negating the earlier medical report which positioned Dua at 17. Thus confirmed that NADRA paperwork are correct and Dua in actuality is a 14yr little one,” he wrote on Twitter.
The listening to of the case is scheduled to start out shortly.