Family vs Police, Fights over who and where to conduct the Postmortem:

Male’-(Scene-14- 17 April) - Police informed the family that the autopsy was scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Following the notice, the family wrote back to Police Chief Adam Zahir that at no time had the legal guardian(s) of Solah given permission to police or the government to conduct a postmortem on their own.In the letter Ibrahim Zareer, the elder brother of Solah, who held power of attorney, from Solah's father, requested the government and the police not to do anything to Solah's body and not to carry out a postmortem by a foreign pathologist brought under the auspices of the Maldives government.The letter requested the government and police to appoint an "independent body" to undertake the postmortem on Solah.Solah's family says that the government brought the pathologist and that he/she was staying in Bandos Island Resort. The family also said that they have no identification of the pathologist nor independent verification of the pathologist's credentials. In Zareer's letter, he had also said that the pathologist was seen to be working closely with Maldives Police Service and therefore the family doubted the independence of the pathologist.An official from the Maldives Police Service yesterday said that although the family has protested against the postmortem been carried out in Maldives, the government had already made its decision to conduct the autopsy in Maldives. The official said that on request by the Maldives government, the government of Sri Lanka had sent two pathologists. The official said that the government has given permission for Solah's family to have their own expert present during the postmortem.