Noor Muqadam homicide case: Courtroom rejects Zahir Jaffer’s three pleas

The petition towards the police chief requested the court docket to direct the IGP and his officers to carry out their duties and let the court docket proceed with the case in a authorized method. It stated the IGP and senior cops held a press convention on January 25 and “tried to provide an impression that the court docket proceedings are carried out unsuitable” and wish clarification.

The petition was filed after a clarification issued by the capital police final month concerning the investigating officer’s (IO) cross examination.

In a press launch, the police had stated that media studies “misinterpreted” January 24 proceedings of the case, when the IO was cross-examined, and seemed that an try was being made to provide profit to the primary homicide accused.

The police assertion had clarified the IO’s statements as reported within the media and gave extra context to his solutions given throughout his cross-examination by Zahir’s lawyer.

Furthermore, the police assertion stated, “very sturdy items of forensic proof” had been accessible towards Zahir, and that “the investigation is dedicated to hunt justice for Noor.”

Presenting arguments in court docket right this moment, prosecutor Rana Hasan Abbas assured the decide that no additional clarifications could be issued by the police and requested the court docket to dismiss Zahir’s plea.

Whereas lawyer Shahryar Nawaz Khan, who represented Zahir on the listening to, was presenting his arguments on the matter, Further Classes Decide Ata Rabbani stated police’s clarification was not issued over court docket proceedings however on misguided reporting by the media.

At that, Khan raised the query whether or not the IGP might concern a clarification in case of unsuitable reporting by the media.

Presenting his arguments on one other petition, pertaining to the map of the crime scene, Zahir’s lawyer stated the map was incorrect.

“The crime scene map reveals a residential space behind the place of the incident (homicide) when really a jungle is positioned there,” he contended.

In his arguments, the prosecutor, nonetheless, contested the declare, saying that “inexperienced space and jungle” had been proven within the map and in addition talked about in particulars included within the indictment.

However Zahir’s lawyer requested the court docket for an evaluation of the crime scene.

Almost about the third petition, searching for the verification of a cell phone quantity given by Noor’s father and complainant within the case, Shaukat Mukadam, the lawyer stated the latter claimed that it belonged to his spouse, Kausar Mukadam.

He claimed that the quantity was registered beneath another person’s identify and requested the court docket to hunt its data.

The prosecutor, nonetheless, argued that the possession of the quantity had been confirmed by the decision element data, which included information of the person’s location.

He stated the one goal of submitting a grievance beneath part 540 (energy to summon materials witness or study particular person current) of the Code of Prison Process at this stage, in reference to the plea, could be to additional delay the proceedings.

Saying there was no point out of the quantity in query within the case, he termed the plea “non-maintainable”.

Following the arguments, Decide Rabbani initially reserved his verdicts on all three pleas and later dismissed all of them.

The court docket has already rejected an utility filed by Zahir, searching for the structure of a medical board to find out his psychological well being.

In its written order on the plea, the court docket stated it had been raised “simply to do away with prison legal responsibility”.