A medical report submitted to an Islamabad sessions court has declared Zahir Jaffer as fit to stand the trial. The report was submitted before Juge Atta Rabbani during the proceedings on Thursday. During the hearing on January 15, the court ordered the jail authorities to conduct Jaffer’s medical checkup. An application by Jaffer’s counsel to form a medical board for their client’s mental assessment was rejected earlier this month. Jaffer is the prime suspect in the murder of Noor Mukadam. What happened in the court? On Thursday, Investigation Officer (IO) Abdul Sattar was cross-questioned by Jaffer s counsel. According to Sattar, he reached the .
An Islamabad sessions court has issued a four-page order outlining the reasons to reject a plea on the formation of a medical board to determine the mental state of Zahir Jaffer, the prime accused in the Noor Mukadam murder. The court on Wednesday issued a judgement it had reserved earlier in the day, rejecting the plea to constitute the medical board. In the four-page written order issued on Thursday, the court said that the application was moved only when the trial was in the final stage while neither Zahir Jaffer nor his parents or family members had made
A district and sessions court in Islamabad has reserved its verdict on the formation of a medical board to ascertain the mental state of Zahir Jaffer, accused of murdering 27-year-old Noor Mukadam. On December 1, Zahir s counsel filed an application in the court seeking the formation of a medical board to determine his mental health. It stated that Zahir “is suffering from a severe mental ailment which is necessary to be determined through an authorised medical board according to the commands of the legislature and local and international law”. Zahir is a chronic patient of mental disorder/schizoaffective disorder due to drug psychosis and the same was the position at the time of h.