Vatican City, Vatican - July 2024 - Today, July 29, 2024, the Diocesan Inquest of the Servant of God Akash Bashir (June 22, 1994 - March 15, 2015), lay Salesian alumnus, was opened at the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. Present - with Dr. Federico Favero of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - were Fr Pierluigi Cameroni, Postulator General, and Fr Gabriel Cruz, Vice-Postulator of the Cause. The 4 envelopes of Transunto and Public Copy were presented, two in Urdu and two in English, and then the seals were broken, going through the General Index to verify the articulation of the structural parts of the Inquiry and dwelling in particular on the work of the Historical Commission. With the opening, the Proceedings can be divided and organized. They will then pass temporarily to the Typography, which will collate and bind them in blank, titling and numbering the volumes, as per the practice of the Dicastery. Thereafter, they will be made accessible to the competent Office, for it to study their legal validity: that is, the Dicastery will check that the fulfillments prescribed under the law have been carried out correctly and completely in the Diocesan Phase.