Zubair Qureshi
One of the lawyers for a co- accused in the Noor Mukadam murder case on Wednesday urged the judge to make the clarifications issued by Islamabad police regarding an earlier cross-examination of the investigating officer a part of the case record.
Advocate Asad Jamal, who was representing Asmat Adamjee, mother of the primary accused Zahir Jaf-fer, questioned whether the clarifications given by the Islamabad police regarding Monday’s hearing should be made part of the case.
On the judge’s inquiring which clarifications he was referring to, Prosecutor Rana Hassan Abbas stated that reports in the media should be left to the media.“The Islamabad police inspector general has inter-fered in the justice system,” Jamal said. The judge inquired whether this was done “officially”, adding that if so, this was not good.
The prosecutor told the judge he would inform him if that was the case and the judge vowed to take action in that regard.
The hearing was adjourned till February 2 (Wednesday).
The police, in a press release, clarified that stories appearing in print and social media gave the impres-sion that the police were trying to give benefit to the main accused and gave more context to the IO’s answers during his cross-examination by Zahir’s lawyer.
