ISLAMABAD - Islamabad police have arrested six more accused including owner of Therapy Works in Noor Muqaddam murder case, according to official sources.
The sources said that Dr. Tahir was among those arrested in the night-long raids. Amjad who was injured by the main accused Zahir Jaffar on the day of the incident has also been arrested by police. The police had recorded a statement of Amjad last week but didn’t arrest him due to his injury. The official sources said that all these accused have been arrested for hiding evidence. So far, the police have arrested 12 persons in connection with this heinous murder.
The police have also confirmed that the accused had raped the victim before killing her. The police had added section 376 of the PPC (rape) in the FIR after forensic report confirmed rape of the victim. Meanwhile, the police have claimed that DNA and fingerprints of accused Zahir Jaffar have confirmed his involvement in the murder of Noor Muqaddam. They said that photogrammetry tests conducted on a video in which Noor Mukaddam was seen making efforts to save her life and being chased by the accused confirmed that it was genuine. The footage had been sent to the Punjab Forensic Science Agency, Lahore, to find out if the video was genuine. The investigators had obtained the footage of a CCTV camera installed in the neighbourhood of the accused’s house which revealed that the victim in an effort to save her life had jumped from the first floor of the house and ran towards the main gate, but found it locked. Shortly afterwards, she took shelter in the guard’s room, but the accused broke the door and dragged her inside the house. The gardener, who was present in the house at the time of the crime, had confirmed during the interrogation that he had seen the victim jumping from the first floor.
Noor, 27, daughter of former Pakistani diplomat Shaukat Muqaddam, was found murdered at a house in Islamabad’s upscale sector F-7/4 on July 20. A first information report was registered the same day against Zahir Jaffar, who was arrested from the site of the murder, under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s father.