{"id":21801,"date":"2026-04-29T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21801"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:18:08","slug":"court-rejects-plea-to-transfer-sana-yousaf-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21801","title":{"rendered":"Court Rejects Plea to Transfer Sana Yousaf Murder Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"987\" data-end=\"1216\"><strong>The Islamabad High Court has rejected a request to transfer the trial of TikToker Sana Yousaf\u2019s murder case to another court, ordering that proceedings will continue in the current court to ensure continuity in the trial process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1218\" data-end=\"1394\">The court directed Judge Afzal Majoka to proceed with the trial, while the decision was announced by Chief Justice Sarfraz Dogar on a petition filed by the accused, Umar Hayat.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1396\" data-end=\"1597\">The accused, Umar Hayat, had expressed a lack of confidence in the trial judge and requested that the case be shifted to another court; however, after hearing the arguments, the court dismissed the plea.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1599\" data-end=\"1749\">Following the ruling, further hearings in the case will continue in the same court, where the trial process will be carried forward to its conclusion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1849\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-token-text-error border-token-surface-error\/15 bg-token-surface-error\/5 flex items-center gap-6 rounded-2xl border text-sm px-3 py-2.5 md:p-4 mb-2 w-full max-w-full self-start\">\n<div class=\"flex min-w-0 grow gap-3 items-start\">\n<div class=\"min-w-0 grow pt-[2px] ps-1\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-row items-center justify-between gap-4\">\n<div class=\"min-w-0 text-pretty break-words whitespace-pre-wrap\">\n<div class=\"markdown break-words [&amp;&gt;:last-child]:mb-0\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamabad High Court has rejected a request to transfer the trial of TikToker Sana Yousaf\u2019s murder case to another court, ordering that proceedings will continue in the current court to ensure continuity in the trial process. The court directed Judge Afzal Majoka to proceed with the trial, while the decision was announced by Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[4591,282,4879,12032,3160,7138],"class_list":["post-21801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-court-decision","tag-islamabad-high-court","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-sana-yousaf-case","tag-trial","tag-umar-hayat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21803,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21801\/revisions\/21803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}