Islamabad (Web Desk): A sessions court in Islamabad on Thursday awarded death sentence to Shahnawaz Amir in Sara Inam murder case and imposed a fine of a fine of Rs1 million on him.
According to details, Sessions Judge Nasir Javaid Rana announced the verdict which was reserved on December 9.
The court acquitted the Shahnawaz's mother, Samina Shah, due to lack of evidence.
She was indicted in December last year by the sessions court and was named co-accused in the case.
Sara Inam was brutally murdered by her ex-husband Shahnawaz on September 22, 2022. Her postmortem had revealed that the victim had succumbed to multiple skull fractures when she was assaulted by her husband.
The proceedings of the case lasted for more than a year and three different judges conducted the hearings. Additional Sessions Judge Islamabad Muhammad Atta Rabbani and Azam Khan also heard the murder case.
Shahnawaz Amir was arrested on September 23 last year for killing his wife, a Canadian national, at a farmhouse located in Chak Shahzad where the suspect lived along with his mother.
Police registered a first information report (FIR) on the complaint of Station House Officer (SHO) Nawazish Ali Khan last month under Section 302 (punishment for murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
The FIR mentioned that the suspect's mother, Sameena, called the police on Friday (September 23) to inform them that her son, Shahnawaz, had killed his wife with a dumbbell.
As per the FIR, Sameena had told the police that her son was in the house and had hidden the body of his wife. Following this, the police raided the house.
In the complaint, the police said that Shahnawaz had locked himself inside his room and when the personnel broke inside, there were blood spots on his hands and clothes.
During the inquiry, the man identified himself as Shahnawaz Amir and told the police that he had murdered his wife with a dumbbell and hid her body in a bathtub in the bathroom, it claimed.
The parents of the accused were also nominated in the case however the court discharged senior journalist Ayaz Amir from the murder case of his daughter-in-law Sarah Inam.
