ISLAMABAD: District and Sessions Judge Islamabad Nasir Javed Rana heard the murder case of Sara Inam in which her husband Shahnawaz Amir is the main accused.
Sara was a Canadian national and allegedly murdered by Shahnawaz, her husband and son of political commentator Ayaz Amir at his Chak Shahzad house in Islamabad a year ago.
Shahnawaz was arrested in connection with the case a day after the murder.
Today, the judge recorded the statement of the accused in the court. In the statement, he flatly denied his involvement in the murder of his wife.
He said that in July 2022 Sara married him without taking consent of her parents. He said his parents and first wife were also not happy with his second marriage.
Shahnawaz said that on the day of her murder, Sara came to his house, his mother prepared dinner and the three took dinner together very happily.
Then we went to sleep and at night Sara went to washroom and he fell asleep. At 7am the next day, he said, he went to bring breakfast from the market and came back at 9am.
He said when he came back Sara was not in her room and he looked for her and found her fallen unconscious in the tub of her bathroom.
The accused said he got terrified and informed his mother who was in another room. He said her mother telephoned his father who was in Chakwal. Later, police reached the house and he informed them about the incident in detail but the murder case was registered against him.
He said he had been framed in the case. He said his father Ayaz Amir is a journalist and speaks in favor of the PTI and its jailed chief Imran Khan due to which the previous PDM government implicated his family in the case
He claimed that Sara had died after falling in the bathroom. He said he was innocent and would submit all the evidence in the court in the next hearing of the case.
After recording the statement of the accused, the court adjourned the hearing till November 1.
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