Pakistan’s Supreme Court will listen to the appeal against the death sentence of Zahir Jaffer in the case of murder of Noor Mukadam on May 13, according to his last list of causes, he emerged on Sunday.
Noor, 27, was found murdered in a residence in the exclusive sector F-7/4 of Islamabad on July 20, 2021. A first information report (FIR) was recorded later on the same day against Zahir Jaffer, who was arrested from the murder site.
In February 2022, a district judge and sessions condemned Jaffer for killing Mukadam, giving him the death penalty along with 25 years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of RS200,000. The personnel of their home, Iftikhar and Jameel, coacked in the case, were sentenced to 10 years in prison, while all the other suspects, including Jaffer’s parents and the employees of Therapyworks, were acquitted.
According to the list of causes available on the website of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, “the hearing on the appeal against Jaffer’s death sentence will take place on May 13”.
Judge Hashim Kakar will lead a bank of three members, which includes the justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim and Judge Ali Baqar Najafi, who will listen to the case.
Noor’s father, the appeal of Shaukat Muqaddam against the acquittal of Jaffer’s father, Zakir Jaffer, is also ready for the audience.
The appeals of the coaccusado convicted in the case will also be heard.
According to the signed by his father at the time of murder, he discovered that his daughter had been “brutally murdered with a gun and beheaded with sharp edges.”
In March 2023, the Superior Court of Islamabad confirmed the death sentence by Jaffer and also turned his 25 -year prison mandate into another death penalty.
In April 2023, an appeal was filed in the Supreme Court against the IHC decision to maintain the death sentence.
Last year, Noor’s father had urged SC to occupy the case of murder on hold for more than a year and a half in the upper court.
Mukadam, a former diplomat, had approached a press conference to commemorate the birth anniversary of his murdered daughter and demanded justice from the upper court.
