KARACHI, Dec 3: An additional district and sessions court deferred the pronouncement of its order on a pre-arrest bail petition filed by Shaikh Abdul Majeed, the father of the deceased groom Hafiz Mohammad Azeem Shaikh, as the applicant was unwell.

Judge Tasneem Sultana on Monday deferred the order for one day on a pre-arrest bail application filed by Shaikh Abdul Majeed under Section-498 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Mohammad Azeem and his bride Beenish were found dead under mysterious circumstances the next morning of their wedding night in their North Nazimabad apartment in Taimuria police limits on Aug 11.

The investigation officer had nominated the deceased groom’s father as the main accused in the double murder case in an interim charge-sheet that he submitted to Judicial Magistrate, Central, Abdul Zahoor Chandio, on Oct 27.

Arguing that police have neither arrested the murderer nor produced a final charge-sheet in the case so far, the defence counsel had said that his client was being falsely implicated in the case. He said Mr Majeed had already submitted an application to the court for the transfer of investigation of the couple’s murder from zone west to any other zone since he was not satisfied with the case’s investigation.