ISLAMABAD – January 15 (ONLINE): Noor Mukaddam’s father Shaukat Mukaddam, who is also the complainant in the Noor’s murder case, appeared before an Islamabad district and sessions court and recorded his statement.
Noor, 27, was found murdered at a residence in the capital’s upscale Sector F-7/4 on July 20, 2021. A first information report was registered the same day against Zahir — who was arrested from the site of the murder — under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of the victim’s father.
“Zahir Jaffer should be given a death sentence,” Shaukat Mukaddam said, while giving his official statement during the trial.
At the hearing’s outset, Shaukat requested the judge to overlook any lapses in protocol since it was his first time appearing in a courtroom. He proceeded to recount the day’s events when Noor was murdered, saying he and his wife had left for some chores on July 19 and when he returned back to their house, Noor was not there.
“[On] July 20 — I know Zahir’s family — Zahir called me on two numbers in the afternoon and said Noor was not with him,” he said, adding that later in the day at 10pm he got a call from Kohsar police station informing him that his daughter had been killed and asking him to visit the police station.
Shaukat said he reached the police station and was taken to a house that belonged to Zahir, adding that when he went inside he saw that Noor “was brutally murdered and decapitated”.
He said he identified Noor’s body and gave his signed statement to Assistant Sub-Inspector Zubair Mazhar and later signed off on a report on the cause of death. Shaukat added he had handed over Noor’s body for a postmortem on July 21.
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