Zahir Jaffar, who was convicted and sentenced to death for killing 27-year-old woman Noor Mukadam in Islamabad, has approached the Supreme Court against the verdict, raising 23 objections.
A trial court awarded a death sentence to Jaffer last February, for murdering and decapitating 27-year-old Noor Mukadam in Islamabad on July 20, 2021. Noor Muqaddam was found beheaded at a residence in Islamabad’s upscale Sector F-7/4.
Zahir Jaffer was arrested from the spot covered in blood.
After the trial court had sentenced Jaffer to death, he had approached the Islamabad High Court, which not only upheld the trial court’s death sentence against him for the brutal murder, but also turned his life imprisonment for rape into a death sentence.
Jaffer has approached the Supreme Court now, raising 23 objections against his conviction, reported Dawn.
Filing an appeal through his lawyer Barrister Salman Safdar in the Supreme Court on April 12, he said the IHC’s verdict was erroneous for 23 reasons.
Claiming the case was dealt with “differently” than the routine cases, the appeal stated that “weak and incomplete” evidence was presented against the convict. It added that the prosecution also “failed to bring on record solid, concrete evidence, hence the charge was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt”.
Jaffer also raised objections over the First Information Report (FIR), claiming it was registered with a delay and contained “hearsay evidence”.
The convict also accused the prosecution of introducing a key witness for a “cover-up”.
Jaffer also claimed that the courts did not evaluate electronic data as per the laws set by the Supreme Court.
The appellant also raised objections over the postmortem report of Noor Mukadam, and maintained that he was not given a free trial as the media hype influenced the courts’ proceedings, as well as a criminal investigation.
Zahir Jaffer also said that his mental health was not examined properly.
