ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday resumed hearing of bail petitions of prime suspect Zahir Zaffer’s parents in the high-profile Noor Mukadam murder case.
Justice Aamir Farooq of the IHC was hearing the petitions moved by Zakir Jaffer and Asmat Jaffer.
An associate of the accused’s lawyer turned up before the court and requested an adjournment of the case saying the counsel was busy pursuing a case before the Supreme Court.
Granting his request, the court adjourned the case till on Wednesday (today).
Meanwhile, Therapy Works CEO Zahoor moved an application seeking to become a party to the case. The court issued notices to the accused’s lawyer, and other respondents to file their reply to the plea.
The prime suspect’s parents, who have been nominated as accomplices in the murder case, approached the Islamabad High Court after a local court rejected their bail on August 5.
On Friday, the confessional statement of Zahir Jaffer – the prime suspect in the Noor Mukadam murder case – was read out in court.
The statement was read out by lawyer Khawaja Harris, who is representing Zahir’s parents, Zakir Jaffer and Ismat Adamjee, during a hearing on their bail application which had resumed for the third consecutive day by the IHC.
To this, Justice Aamer Farooq had said that our police do not know how to make links during an interrogation.
Harris had said that he wanted to tell the court about the confessional statement and call data record. After this, he read out the confessional statement of Zahir Jaffer before the police.
In his arguments, Harris had said that one sentence changes the shape of the whole case. “What was the role of the father? Only the recovery is mentioned in the memo of recovery, so how did his statement get included,” the lawyer had asked.
Justice Farooq had said that a memo of recovery states where the main suspect takes an investigating officer and what is recovered.
Harris had argued that the statement recorded by the suspect in police custody has no legal status. He had said the statement of the suspect must be recorded before a magistrate.
Zahir Jaffer has been found guilty in the case challan with his parents and Therapy Works CEO and employees named accomplices. On July 20, in a grisly murder, Noor Mukadam had been put to death allegedly by her friend Zahir Jaffer, in the vicinity of Islamabad’s Kohsar police station.
