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DHAKA, April 20, 2025 (BSS) – The High Court (HC) today issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to formulate a guideline to conduct postmortems of women bodies by female physicians. 

A HC division bench of Justice Fatema Najib and Justice Sikder Mahmudur Razi passed the order upon a writ petition filed on March 10 seeking an instruction from the court to formulate a guideline in this connection.

Lawyer Jewel Azad filed the petition. Health Secretary and Director General of Directorate General of Health Services have been made respondents to the petition. 

In the writ petition, the petitioner also sought an order asking as to why the failure of formulating a guideline to conduct postmortem of women bodies by female physicians and paramedics would not be declared illegal and beyond the authority of the law. 

The petition also sought an order to know as to why the physicians and female staffers will not be recruited immediately in this connection.