After the Islamabad High Court (IHC) denied their applications in the Noor Mukadam murder case, Zahir Jaffer’s parents approached the Supreme Court (SC) for bail on Wednesday (6 October).
Advocate Khawaja Harris was the one who filed the appeal. The parents of Zahir Jaffer, the key suspect in Noor’s murder, Zakir and Asmat Adamjee, were arrested on July 24 and have been in custody since.
The IHC had denied Zahir’s parents’ bail appeal on September 29 and ordered that the trial against them be finished within eight weeks.
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On September 9, Additional District and Sessions Judge Atta Rabbani received a police report, often known as a challan, filed under section 173 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). Zahir’s confession of killing Noor was included in the challan.
According to Islamabad police, Zakir was a willing participant in Noor’s murder and even told his son, Zahir, that help was on the way to dispose of the girl’s body.
Zahir’s father was aware of Noor’s imprisonment at the residence and could have alerted the authorities in time to save her life, according to the challan. His father assured him that “our people are coming to dispose of the body” and that they would get Zahir out.
Background
On July 20, Noor, the daughter of Shaukat Mukadam, a former Pakistani ambassador to South Korea and Kazakhstan, was assassinated in Sector F-7/4.
On the complaint of the victim’s father, a first information report (FIR) was filed against Zahir under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code (premeditated murder).
According to the FIR, Noor contacted her parents to tell them she was going to Lahore with some friends and would be back in some days. The FIR further elaborates that the complainant received a call from Zahir on Tuesday afternoon, informing him that Noor was not with him.
The victim’s father received a call from Kohsar police station about 10 p.m. the same day, alerting him that Noor had been murdered.
The complainant was then taken to Zahir’s home, where he discovered his “daughter had been brutally murdered with a sharp-edged weapon and beheaded,” according to the FIR.
