Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar today took back the suo motu notice regarding the murder case of Kohat’s Asma Rani.

A three-member bench headed by the chief justice conducted the hearing, during which the advocate general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa told the apex court he submitted a charge-sheet of the case in the trial court.

To this, the CJP remarked that the law would make its own way now that the accused has been arrested, taking back the suo motu notice he had issued earlier.

The main accused in Asma Rani murder case, Mujahid Farooqi, was arrested almost two weeks ago and had been shifted to Pakistan from Dubai with the help of Interpol.

Asma Rani a third-year medical student at Kohat Medical College was murdered on January 28 when she was returning home from Abbotabbad after a session break from her college.

The victim, who had refused a marriage proposal of Mujahid Afridi as he was already married, died later at a local hospital before naming the assailant.

The accused after committing the crime fled the country to Saudi Arabia via Benazir Bhutto International Airport Islamabad the same day.