The main accused in the murder of Sarah Inam, Shahnawaz Amir, the son of well-known journalist Ayaz Amir, was acquitted by an Islamabad court on Monday in a case involving unlawful possession of a Kalashnikov rifle.
Shahnawaz Amir was given the benefit of the doubt, and the court expressed its displeasure with the police’s flawed investigation.
A formal ruling was published by Judicial Magistrate Umar Shabbir in the Kalashnikov recovery case.
Judicial Magistrate Umar Shabbir released written judgment in the Kalashnikov recovery case.
The court also ordered to issuing of Robkar for the release of the accused in the Kalashnikov recovery case.
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The court verdict says that the prosecution failed to prove the case against the accused and there were many loopholes in the evidence presented in the case. “It’s an accused’s right to benefit from the doubt,” the verdict says.
Meanwhile, the final arguments in the Sarah Inam murder case were continuing and a verdict will be pronounced after that.
The Islamabad Police had arrested Shahnazaz Amir on September 23 last year for allegedly killing his Canadian national wife at a farmhouse in the federal capital. Later, the police had recovered an illegal Kalashnikov from his possession and filed another case against him.
Last year in December, the court indicted Amir and his mother Sameena Shah in the Sarah Inam murder case. The indictment order was issued by Judge Atta Rabbani after he dismissed Sameena’s application seeking to be discharged from the case. Both the accused have pleaded not guilty to the crime.
Sarah Inam, 37, was a Canadian national and a successful economist who worked with Deloitte and USAID at different points of her career. She was married to Shahnawaz for just three months before being murdered.
She had a master’s degree from the University of Waterloo and was currently employed in the government sector in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as per friends and family.
