Zahir Jaffer, convicted of murdering Noor Muqadam, filed an appeal against his death sentence in the Supreme Court.
\nJaffer has appealed that his sentence \u2018in the Interest of justice\u2019 should be overturned because he was conviceted on the basis of a faulty FIR.
\nThe appeal says that the prosecution\u2019s case rests on \u2019weak and incomplete case of \u2018circumstantial evidence\u2019 and the First Information Report was filed on the basis of \u2018hearsay evidence\u2019.
\nIt says that any motive that Jaffer could have for the killing was not proven and that the \u2018parties had cordial relationship with no enmity whatsoever\u2019.
\nThe also cites cases such as Bakht Munir vs The State, where an act of violence was jedged to be a spur of the moment decision and says that whatever happened between Noor and Jaffer immediately before her murder was not made part of the prosecution.
\nJaffer\u2019s lawyers have also argued that the CCTV footage of the incident presented in court was not complete and that selected bits were presented in court.
\nThe appeal also mentions that Jaffer\u2019s family were subjected to a \u2018media trial\u2019 and that \u2018social media hype\u2019 resulted in miscarriage of justice. It also says that the death sentence handed to Zahir Jaffer is \u2018excessively harsh\u2019.
\nNoor had been found dead on July 20, 2021 in Islamabad. Zahir Jaffer was arrested from the scene and sentenced to death by a sessions court for murder in February 2022. A divisional bench of the Islamabad High Court had upheld the decision in March 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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