Islamabad:
A man accused of killing a 17 -year -old Tiktok star at his home in the Federal Capital after she repeatedly rejected her progress was formally accused on Saturday.
The murder of healthy Yousaf in June drew the sentence at the national level and revived the debate on women’s safety, after some online comments, along with the condolences, he blamed it for his own death.
The 22 -year -old defendant, Umar Hayat, declared himself innocent in the district court and sessions of Islamabad.
“All accusations made against me are unfounded and false,” Judge Muhamad Afzal Majoka told the defendant.
During the hearing, the judge asked if Hayat had killed healthy. “I did not commit any crime,” the defendant replied.
Then, the judge asked him if he was falsely accused in the case.
“Is all this a lie?” The judge commented. He also noted that Hayat had also been accused of snatching Yousaf’s mobile phone.
In that, the defendant argued that all the level -level accusations against him were “based on falsehood.”
The court then postponed the hearing until September 25.
Islamabad police had arrested Hayat on June 3, one day after Yousaf was killed in his home in Islamabad.
Before his arrest, a first information report (FIR) of the murder was recorded at the Sumbal Police Station of Islamabad against an unidentified man in the complaint of Sana’s mother, Farzana Yousaf, invoking section 302 (intentional murder) of the Pakistan Criminal Code (PPC).
In the FIR, Yousaf’s mother said that a man with a gun in his hand had suddenly entered his house around 5 pm and “shot my daughter directly with the intention of killing.”
Later, the Inspector General of Islamabad (IG) Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi had said during a press conference that the police had arrested a suspect, who was a 22 -year -old man from Faisalabad.
He said that Hayat had tried to contact Yosaf repeatedly and was being “rejected by her again and again,” and added that the defendant had taken Yousaf’s mobile phone in an attempt to eliminate the evidence, but he had recovered along with the offense weapon.
On July 25, the Police had formally filed the Challan against Hayat to the District Prosecutor’s Office and the Session Courts. It also included the confessional declaration of Hayat registered under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
In his statement, Hayat, son of a retired government official and Tiktoker himself, said he had developed a unilateral crush with healthy after connecting with her through social networks. He had confessed that suspicion and jealousy led him to kill her.
Hayat revealed that he had traveled from Jarewala to Islamabad on May 28 to wish his birthday. When she did not meet him, he convinced himself that he was deliberately avoiding him, he said, adding that on June 2, he returned to the capital after renting a Toyota Fortuner and carrying a gun of 30 orientations, with the intention of facing her.
