A district and sessions court in Islamabad on Saturday extended the interim pre-arrest bail of Sameena Shah, mother of prime suspect Shahnawaz Amir, till October 3 in the murder case of Canadian national Sara Inam.
Shahnawaz allegedly killed his wife Sara at home after a row over a family issue on September 23.
Shahnawaz, who was detained by the police from a farmhouse in Islamabad’s Chak Shahzad area for being a suspect in his wife’s murder confessed to committing the crime and said that he “thought” his spouse was having an affair with someone else. The couple was married for just three months.
In the police report registered following the murder, an additional clause of Section 109 (punishment for abetment) of the Pakistan Penal Code was added at the request of Sara’s uncles Colonel (retd) Ikram and Zia-ur-Rahim, who have blamed Amir and his former wife for their niece’s murder.
The petitioners maintained that Sameena has been living at the farmhouse where Sara was murdered.
On September 26, the court accepted the pre-arrest bail plea of Sameena Shah against a surety of Rs50,000 and directed her to join the probe.
Interim bail of Shahnawaz Amir’s mother extended in Sara murder case
