A local court in Islamabad has issued arrest warrants for the parents of Shahnawaz Amir accused of murdering his wife, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Saturday.

Accepting the petition filed by police, the district and sessions court also issued arrest warrants for the father Ayaz Amir and mother of Shahnawaz Amir.  

The court also accepted two-day physical remand of Shahnawaz, rejecting police's plea for a 10-day remand.

When Judicial Magistrate Mubashir Hassan Chishti asked the murder accused when he was arrested, Shahnawaz told the court that he was arrested on Friday morning.

When inquired by the court, the accused’s lawyer said that it was a blind murder and he has no objection to the first remand of the accused.

The judge then asked Shahnawaz: “Do you know you are charged with Section 302?”

File photo of Shahnawaz with his wife, Sara.

The investigator informed the court that the accused brutally murdered his wife. The police investigator told the court “The accused is nominated in the case and they have to make recoveries for which remand should be granted.”

The police officer told the court that the accused called to Pakistan his wife, Sara, who was in Canada and then murdered her.

The accused’s lawyer then interfered arguing that the murder is limited to accusations only.

The police sought arrest warrants for accused's father Ayaz Amir, his mother, uncle, and aunt. However, the court issued arrest warrants for Ayaz Amir and his wife.

The police also contacted accused’s parents who said they were reaching Islamabad within two days. Father Ayaz Amir told the police that the accused should be investigated on merit and strictly punished as per law.

During interrogation, accused Shahnawaz told the police in preliminary statement that it was an unintentional murder. Police also sent the accused’s mobile phone for forensic analysis.

Earlier, an FIR of the murder of Sara, daughter-in-law of renowned journalist Ayaz Amir, was registered at Islamabad’s Shahzad Town police station on the complaint of the police station’s SHO.

The accused, Shahnawaz Amir, will be produced in a court today (Saturday). 

The text of the FIR read, “Shahnawaz and his wife quarreled with each other following which he murdered her by striking her with a dumbbell.”

It was further stated that as soon as Shahnawaz, the suspect, saw police in his home, he locked himself in a room. “And when locks of the room were broken to arrest him, stains of blood were found on his shirt as well as on his hands. Later, Shah Nawaz confessed to have committed the crime. He also took the police to the bathtub where the body of his wife was lying. There were injury marks on her head,” the FIR concluded.   

The suspect will be produced in the sessions court today.

Police register case against accused parents on victim's uncle application 

The police said the uncle of the victim applied to nominate the parents of the accused in the case. 

According to sources, the deceased's uncle, Colonel (retd) Akram, is residing in Islamabad. 

The police have also added section 109 in the case with the nomination of Ayaz Amir and his wife. According to sources, victim Sara was working as a lecturer in Dubai.

She got acquainted with accused Shahnawaz three months ago and then got married in Chakwal.

The victim came to Pakistan three to four times in three months.

A few days ago, the deceased Sara also bought a Mercedes car for accused Shahnawaz.

Islamabad Police had yesterday (Friday, September 23, 2022) said that investigation into the murder of renowned journalist Ayaz Amir’s daughter-in-law Sara by her husband Shahnawaz was underway and its details would be shared with the media as and when they were available.

Spokesman for the Force said that forensic experts had collected evidences from the crime scene while the postmortem of Sara’s body had also been completed at the federal capital’s Poly Clinic Hospital, confirming heavy blow to the head. 

Sources in the hospital, however, said that the postmortem could not establish the cause of her death due to which doctors had now decided to conduct the forensic test of her body. 

Sources said that Sara and Shah Nawaz had quarreled with each other on Friday morning. And when police reached the couple’s home, they found Shah Nawaz there, the sources said, adding contrary to the general impression the suspect was completely normal and was not drunk. 

Police spokesman told media that Shah Nawaz had married Sara, a Canadian national, only three months back.

Early in the morning, Ayaz Amir’s son had mercilessly murdered his 37-year-old wife by repeatedly hitting her head with a dumbbell in Chak Shahzad area of Islamabad. 

Police rushed to the crime scene after receiving information and started their investigation.

Reporters: Ehtisham Kiyani and Farzana Siddique