ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad periods court docket sentenced Umar Hayat, the principle accused within the Sana Yousaf homicide case, to demise on Monday.
Hayat was arrested by the Islamabad Police a day after 17-year-old TikTok influencer Yousaf was shot lifeless in her home on June 2, 2025. Islamabad Inspector Common (IG) Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi had mentioned the then-22-year-old offender was arrested from Faisalabad and termed it a case of “repeated rejections”.
Decide Afzal Majoka introduced the decision within the case right this moment, handing Hayat a demise sentence, along with 10 years of imprisonment and Rs2 million nice.
Final yr, Hayat — son of a retired authorities official and a TikToker himself — had confessed earlier than a Justice of the Peace beneath Part 164 of the Legal Process Code (CrPC) that he shot Sana.
Nevertheless, yesterday, he retracted his earlier confessional assertion whereas testifying earlier than the trial court docket.
In his earlier assertion, Hayat had admitted to creating a one-sided obsession with Yousaf after on-line interactions, and mentioned jealousy and suspicion drove him to commit the crime.
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