A report released by doctors at Rawalpindi Central Jail Adiala on Thursday declared Zaheer Jafar, the primary accused in the Noor Muqadam murder case, to be medically “completely fit”.
Additional Sessions Judge Atta Rabbani received the report in today’s hearing, where Zaheer was brought on a stretcher by policemen.
The report said that Zaheer was medically examined several times.
“The accused was also examined by a psychiatrist who declared that he is [mentally] fit,” the report said.
Junior counsel Usman Riaz Gul, who had represented Zaheer in the previous hearing in the absence of advocate Sikander Zulqarnain Saleem, the counsel for the accused, at that time requested The court then issued directions for a medical check-up of Zaheer Jaffer, who was taken to the courtroom by the policemen hunchbacked on a chair.
On Zaheer’s arrival, Gul had said, “The mental condition of the accused has deteriorated.
Earlier, Akram Qureshi, the lawyer of TherapyWorks owner Tahir Zahoor, had informed the court that Zaheer was not able to walk after the judge took notice of his absence.
Judge Rabbani had said at that time that he had written a letter to the jail authorities directing Zaheer to undergo a medical check-up.
when he was brought to the courtroom on a stretcher bakhshi khana Today, lawyer Sajjad Ahmed Bhatti – lawyer for gardener Jaan Mohammed and gatekeeper Iftikhar, two of Zaheer’s domestic workers convicted in the case – requested the judge to send Zaheer back to a temporary lockup in court.
“The condition of the accused is not well,” he said, requesting the court to send him back. bakhshi khana,
To that, Judge Rabbani explained that he did not want to sympathetically summon the accused during the previous hearing, but other lawyers had requested his presence in the courtroom.
He was referring to the previous hearing where Gul had drawn the judge’s attention to Zaheer’s absence several times.
One application There has already been a demand for constitution of a medical board to ascertain the mental health status of Zaheer. dismiss by the court, which saw in its written order On the matter that the petition was raised “only to be relieved of criminal liability”.
The order, issued on January 6, said that the petition was filed when the hearing was about to conclude and the matter was not taken up before the court earlier.
“The facts and the circumstances present show that the accused is not suffering from mental illness. [and] The petition has been filed for such consideration to be relieved of criminal liability,” the order read.
In today’s hearing, Basratullah Khan, the counsel for Zaheer’s father and co-accused Zakir Jafar, also cross-examined the account of the Investigating Officer (IO) Abdul Sattar, the investigating officer of the case, which was recorded in the previous hearing.
The court adjourned the hearing till January 24.
case background
Noor, 27, was murdered on July 20 at a residence in the capital’s Upcoming Sector F-7/4. An FIR was registered on the same day against Zaheer – who was arrested from the murder scene – under section 302 (PPC) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of the victim’s father Shaukat Ali Muqadam, a retired Pakistani diplomat. planned murder).
After an FIR was registered in the murder case, Zaheer’s parents and domestic staff were arrested on July 24 on charges of “hiding evidence and involvement in the crime”. She was made a part of the investigation based on the statement of Noor’s father.
Shaukat had said in his complaint that he had gone to Rawalpindi on July 19 to buy a goat for Eid-ul-Adha, while his wife had gone to get clothes from her tailor. When he returned home in the evening, the couple found their daughter Noor absent from their home in Islamabad.
They found his cellphone number switched off and started looking for him. According to the FIR, after some time, Noor called her parents to inform that she was going to Lahore with some friends and would be back in a day or two.
The complainant said that he later got a call from Zaheer, whose family members were known to him. The FIR states that the suspect had informed Shaukat that Noor was not with him.
At around 10 pm on July 20, the victim’s father got a call from Kohsar police station that Noor had been murdered.
According to the FIR, the police later took the complainant to Zaheer’s house in Sector F-7/4, where they found her “daughter has been brutally murdered with a sharp weapon and beheaded”.
Shaukat, who has identified his daughter’s body, has sought maximum punishment under the law against Zaheer for allegedly killing his daughter.
Police later said that Zaheer had confessed to killing Noor, while his DNA tests and fingerprints were also involved in the murder.
Six officers of Therapy Works, whose staff had gone to the murder site before the police, were also named in the case and charged in October along with six others, including Zaheer Jafar’s parents.
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