Shahnawaz Amir, the prime suspect in the Sara Inam murder case, denied all allegations against him in his statement under Section 342 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Amir gave the statement before Additional District and Sessions Islamabad Judge Nasir Javed Rana amid tight security on Wednesday. He said that he would present evidence in his defence in the next hearing.
In his statement before the court, the prime suspect said that he and Sara Inam married in July of last year without asking her parents, due to which his in-laws were unhappy with their marriage.
According to him, on the night of the alleged murder, Sara came to the house where Amir’s mother cooked food and the three of them ate together while having a good chat.
He went on to add that Sara woke up and went to the washroom at night. He maintained that he woke up at 7 a.m. in the morning and went to F8 market in Islamabad to get breakfast.
Amir claimed that he found Sara’s lifeless body in the bathtub when he came back home at 9 a.m.
The court adjourned the hearing of the Sara Inam murder case till November 1.
