ISLAMABAD : The Islamabad High Court (IHC) confirmed Zahir Jaffar’s death sentence in the murder of Noor Muqaddam.

The decision was made public by a two-judge panel consisting of IHC Chairman Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Sardar Ijaz Ishaq Khan. The primary suspect was given two death counts by the court, which changed the life sentence that had been given to him to the death penalty.

Zahir Jaffar had already received a death sentence in the case from a Sessions Court. Additional Sessions Judge Ata Rabbani also found Zahir guilty of rape in accordance with Section 376 and sentenced him to 25 years in prison and a fine of Rs 200,000 when she announced the verdict on February 24. She also sentenced him to 10 years in prison and a fine of Rs 100,000 for kidnapping Noor with the intention of murdering her. The prisoner was also mandated by the court to provide Noor’s family Rs0.5 million. Moreover, co-defendants Jameel and Jan Muhammad had received ten-year prison terms from the sessions court.

Case Studies

Noor, 27, was discovered dead on July 20, 2021, in Zahir’s house in Sector F-7/4 of Islamabad. On the basis of the girl’s father’s allegation, a first information report (FIR) was filed against Zahir Jaffer under Section 302 of the Pakistan Criminal Code (PPC), which refers to planned murder.

After the FIR, Zahir was detained, but on July 24, 2021, his parents and home workers were also detained on suspicion of concealing evidence.

Afterwards, Zahir Jaffer admitted to murdering Noor Mukadam, and a DNA analysis proved she had been sexually assaulted. She was allegedly betraying him, and the accused said, “I stopped her after learning of her treason, but she denied, which made me enraged.”

According to the police’s video evidence on the victim’s torture, Noor hurried from the home’s balcony into the security guard’s cabin around 4:30 pm, where she locked herself in.

Noor was led out the cabin by Zahir Jaffer, who had been following her. The guards on the street continued to watch him attack the girl but did nothing to intervene.

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