
PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS ZAHIR JAFFER'S DEATH SENTENCE
21 May 2025
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on May 20, 2025 upheld the death penalty of Zahir Zakir Jaffer, a Pakistani-American, who was convicted of murdering 27-year-old Noor Mukadam, daughter of a former diplomat, a lawyer of Mukadam’s father said.
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The Supreme Court of India has acquitted a man accused of raping and murdering a child in 2013 in Maharashtra’s Thane, citing the probe agency’s “shabby investigation” and the “overzealous” approach of the court that sentenced him, First Post reported on May 20, 2025.
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