19/05/2026
An Islamabad court on Tuesday announced the verdict in the Sana Yousaf murder case, sentencing the accused, Umar Hayat, to death.
On Monday, Hayat refused to accept his confessional statement given before the magistrate, saying that he did not even know what a confessional statement is.
During the hearing of the murder case Additional Sessions Judge Afzal Majoka’s court, the accused had alleged that the police had falsely implicated under pressure of Sana’s TikTok followers.
Further, he claimed that the police had produced no solid proof and had accused him on the basis of fake documents, false cases and forced testimonies.
While recording his statment, Hayat said that the police had taken him to the police station forcibly and tortured him to sign a blank seven page document. He also claimed that he had never even visited Sector G-13 on the day that Sana was murdered.
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