LAHORE: Zahir Zakir Jaffer — the primary suspect in Noor Mukadam’s brutal murder case — reportedly misguided the officials by making excuses and pretended to faint during polygraph test conducted to verify his statements and evidence.
A team of Islamabad police, including investigators, took the alleged killer to Lahore on Thursday night. On Friday, he was taken to the Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) where he underwent a couple of tests, including polygraph.
It has been reported that experts at the lab asked him 20 questions and also conducted forensic analysis of the CCTV footage of the incident. During the polygraph test, Zahir Jaffer kept trying to make excuses and also acted like he had fainted.
Polygraph test (lie detector test) of the accused was conducted to verify his statements given to the police during interrogation. It included confession of the crime before police, details of the event and other disclosures which led to recovery of the pieces of evidence.
Samples of the accused were also taken for DNA test to verify sexual assault, if any. Moreover, the samples of heart, lungs, stomach, liver, spleen and intestine taken from the victim’s body during autopsy were also submitted to the forensic agency.
Meanwhile, a district and sessions court in Islamabad on Saturday extended the physical remand of Zahir Zakir Jaffer by two more days after the prosecution asked for more time to investigate “new details and characters” found in CCTV footage.
Noor, 27, daughter of former Pakistani diplomat Shaukat Mukadam, was found murdered at a residence in Islamabad’s upscale Sector F-7/4 on July 20.
A first information report (FIR) was registered later the same day against Jaffer, who was arrested from the site of the murder, under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s father.
