After seven months of the long wait, a session court in Islamabad has finally decided to announce the verdict tomorrow in the murder case of Noor Mukadam against prime suspect Zahir Jaffer.
Noor Mukadam is the country’s most high-profile case. With the verdict in a high-profile murder trial scheduled to be announced tomorrow, here are the facts about the case one should know:
- Noor Mukadam was a 27 years old woman and a citizen of Islamabad. She was the daughter of a former diplomat named Shaukat Mukadam.
- She was brutally murdered in July last year after being held hostage for two days and tortured, with a knuckleduster before being beheaded.
- Zahir Jaffer, her murderer was arrested from the crime scene and booked on murder and rape chances as DNA tests showed the victim was raped before being killed.
- His parents and household staff were also arrested over allegations of ‘hiding evidence and being complicit in the crime’.
- It was 26th July 2021 when Zahir Jaffer finally confessed to killing Noor Muqadam and recorded his statement. However, backed off from his statement.
- On August 15th, 2021, police were able to match fingerprints and DNA confirming Jaffer’s involvement in the murder.
- According to the challan, Noor lost six life-saving opportunities due to the active connivance of the accomplices of the principal accused, Zahir, in her murder.
- In September 2021, Zahir Jaffer once again finally confessed to killing Noor after she refused to marry him.
- Noor’s father Shaukat Ali Muqaddam appealed to the court of justice to give a death sentence to her killer Zahir Jaffer.
- On 14th February, Zahir Jaffer stated that the Mukadam family was trying to frame him to extort money from the Jaffers.
