CASE STUDY ON MURDER CASE

Case object:
Pakistani senior journalist ayaz amir daughter in law murder case
1. victim details
Name(s), gender, age: Sarah inam a Female aged 37 years
Location –country: Found dead at farmhouse in Islamabad on
Friday.
Pakistan.

2. crime scene:
 Sara Bibi is suspected of having been murdered by her husband
Shahnawaz – Ayaz Amir's son

A police case registered at Islamabad’s Shahzad Town Police

Station has revealed gory details about the murder of Sarah
Inam, the daughter-in-law of analyst Ayaz Amir. She was
allegedly murdered by her husband and Ayaz’s son
Shahnawaz at their home.

The FIR was registered on the complaint of the SHO based on a

statement by Shahnawaz’s mother, Samina Shah.

SHO Mohammad Aitzaz said that he received the information about

the murder over a phone call and arrived at farmhouse No. 46 in Chak
Shahzad at around 10:40am.

Here the SHO met a woman who identified herself as Samina Shah d/o
Amir Ali Shah – an ex-wife of Ayaz Amir.

The farmhouse is reportedly owned by her.

Samina Shah told the police that her son and daughter-in-law had a
fight and her son killed his wife Sarah Inam by hitting her on the head
with a dumbbell, used in gyms.
“My son is at home right now and he had concealed the body in there,”
she was quoted as saying in the FIR.

When the police entered the house, Shahnawaz locked himself up in a

room. The police forced their entry into the room and overpowered the
man, “whose shirt and hands were stained with blood,” the FIR added.

Shahnawaz told the police that he killed his wife during a fight by
hitting her with a dumbbell and hid her body in the bathtub of his
washroom.

He led the police officers to the bathroom, where a lady constable,

accompanying the police team, examined the body. Sarah Inam’s body
was found with head injuries, according to the FIR.

The accused also told the police that he hid the dumbbell used for the
murder under a sofa in his bedroom.

He retrieved the dumbbell himself and handed it to the police. The

dumbbell was stained with blood and some hair strands were found on
it, the FIR said.

The police took into custody the dumbbell and Shahnawaz’s blood-
stained shirt for a forensic examination.

The FIR has been registered under Section 302 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure (Cr Pc).

What else we know so far

Shahnawaz Amir and Sarah, a Canadian national, tied the knot very
recently. She worked in Dubai and had returned to Pakistan only days
before being murdered.

The couple were residing at Chak Shahzad farmhouse No. 46,

reportedly owned by Amir’s ex-wife and Shahnawaz’s mother.

Analyst Ayaz Amir’s son arrested for wife’s murder

Shahnawaz allegedly beat up Sara Thursday night and killed her with a
heavy dumbbell. The murder was reported Friday morning with some
reports suggesting that it happened early morning.

Police moved the body to the Polyclinic Hospital for a postmortem

examination, with the exact cause of death yet to be determined.

Ayaz Amir arrived at the scene by noon and said that it was a ‘heart-
wrenching incident.’

Such an incident should not happen with anyone,“ Ayaz Amir told
reporters outside the house. “No one should have to bear such
trauma.”
The Capital Police on Saturday arrested senior journalist
Ayaz Amir in the murder case of his daughter-in-law Sara
Bibi, who was murdered in Islamabad's Chak Shehzad
suburbs on Friday.
The 37-year-old was living at a farmhouse in the area where she was
found dead on Friday morning. She was reportedly murdered with a
dumbbell.

3. according to sources
 According to sources, Sara and Shahnawaz had an altercation
over a domestic issue on Thursday night which led to her death
as the accused allegedly had hit her in the head with an iron
dumbbell.
 After killing his wife, sources revealed, the accused allegedly put
her body in a bathtub. The police arrested the accused and took
him to Shahzad Town Police Station for further investigation.
 According to sources, Shahzad Town Police has now named Ayaz
Amir in the case. They said that in the light of the interrogation
of Shahnawaz, the police obtained the arrest warrant of Ayaz
Amir from the area magistrate on Saturday.

4. case summary and background information

Police and investigation teams reached the crime scene and the
journalist's son was arrested after earlier fleeing from the crime scene.
However, the police have said that the FIR will be registered after an
investigation has been conducted.
“The incident is being investigated,” a police spokesperson said while
reserving further comments.
Ayaz Amir, talking to the media, expressed his shock and pain over the
news.
“I would wish this upon no one,” he said “When I got the news...what
can I say?” he added finding himself at a complete loss of words.
“It is something that shakes you to the bones,” he confessed. However,
Amir declined to reveal further details about the incident, saying they
were “legal matters”.

Senior journalist Ayaz Amir on Friday expressed deep grief after his
son was arrested for allegedly killing his wife at his home in the
federal capital.

Earlier in the day, the capital police detained Shah Nawaz in murder
case of his wife Sara, who is a Pakistani-Canadian and had returned
to Islamabad from Dubai last night.  

According to the spokesperson for the Islamabad Police, the

incident occurred in Chak Shahzad area of the capital city.

The police spokesman said that an investigation of the incident is

ongoing and whatever facts are found will be shared.

The victim's body has been shifted to PIMS Hospital Islamabad for
a post-mortem.

Following the incident, a video shared on social media wherein TV

reporters can be seen questioning Ayaz Amir about the incident
when he was visiting his son’s residence.

“What I just can say is that one should not have to go through such
incident," Amir said.

"It is an heart wrenching incident,” the senior journalist added while

giving its first reaction to the murder of his daughter-in-law.