Co-accused in Sara Inam murder case sent on physical remand

ISLAMABAD:

A local court granted the police two-day physical remand of Samina Shah, mother of the main accused in Sara Inam murder case, Shahnawaz Amir, on Thursday.

The accused was produced before the court of Senior Civil Judge Muhammad Aamer Aziz by the police. During the hearing, the judge expressed annoyance with the police for not submitting of case challan even after passing 14 days.

The investigation officer informed the court that the accused was arrested a day earlier after her bail got dismissed. The IO assured the court that the challan was already prepared and would be submitted to the court later in the day.

The IO requested prayed the court to grant five-day physical remand of the accused as the police had to recover a locket. However, the defence counsel adopted the stance that his client had been cooperating with the police since the registration of the case. “She assisted the police in the arrest of her son,” the defence counsel contended. “The police have applied section 109 on my client which is related to advising on a crime.

The police should tell where his client advised the accused to commit the crime,” he argued.

The court subsequently granted the police a two-day physical remand of the accused.

The murder Shahnawaz Amir was arrested by the Islamabad Police on September 23, on charges of murdering his wife, Sara Inam. She was allegedly murdered at their farmhouse in Islamabad's Chak Shehzad suburb, where the suspect lived along with his mother.

Sources told The Express Tribune that Sara, a Canadian citizen and the accused's third wife, had reached Pakistan from Dubai a day earlier.

According to sources, Sara and Shahnawaz had an altercation over a domestic issue that led to the accused hitting her on the head with an iron dumbbell.

After killing his wife, the accused allegedly put her body in a bathtub. The police later arrested the accused and took him to Shahzad Town Police Station for further investigation.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, October 21^st, 2022.