The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of the prime suspect, Zahir Jaffer, in the Noor Mukadam murder case.<\/p>\n
A two-member division bench comprising IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Sardar Ijaz Ishaq Khan announced the verdict today which was earlier reserved on Dec 21.<\/p>\n
In its judgement today, the IHC rejected Zahir\u2019s plea and sentenced him to death twice. It turned the 25-year jail term awarded to Zahir into the death penalty.<\/p>\n
The court also dismissed the pleas of Zahir\u2019s household staff Mohammad Iftikhar and Mohammad Jan \u2014 both co-accused in the case \u2014 challenging the trial court\u2019s verdict.<\/p>\n
Noor, 27, was found murdered at Jaffar\u2019s residence in the capital\u2019s upscale Sector F-7\/4 on July 20 last year. A first information report (FIR) was registered the same day against Zahir Jaffer \u2014 the primary accused who was arrested from the site of the murder \u2014 under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of the victim\u2019s father, Shaukat Mukadam, who is a retired diplomat.<\/p>\n
On Feb 24, 2022, an Islamabad sessions court sentenced Zahir to death and awarded 10-year imprisonment to two co-accused Mohammad Iftikhar and Jan Mohammad.<\/p>\n
Zahir\u2019s parents \u2014 father Zakir Jaffer and mother Asmat Adamji \u2014 as well as TherapyWorks personnel, had been indicted by an Islamabad district and sessions court in October 2021 but were later acquitted by the sessions court when Jaffer was sentenced.<\/p>\n
Following the verdict, Zahir had approached the IHC in March 2022 challenging his death sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of the prime suspect, Zahir Jaffer, in the Noor Mukadam murder case. A two-member division bench comprising IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Sardar Ijaz Ishaq Khan announced the verdict today which was earlier reserved on Dec 21. In its judgement today, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n