A court has granted the benefit of the doubt to Shahnawaz Amir – the main suspect in the murder of Sarah Inam – in the case involving the possession of a Kalashnikov firearm that was obtained illegally. In its decision, the court highlighted the prosecution’s failure to prove its charges against the accused, Sara’s husband and son of prominent journalist Aya Amir, terming its evidence “doubtful”. Judicial Magistrate Umar Shabbir said that the benefit of the doubt is the right of the accused. “Complainant Constable Tariq was not produced as a witness,” the court noted. It should be noted that the police had registered a separate case related to the recovery of a Kalashnikov from the suspect. Currently, the final arguments in the murder case against Shahnawaz are continuing at the session court. Sarah, a 37-year-old economist, was murdered with dumbbells by her husband Shahnawaz in Islamabad’s Chak Shahzad area on Friday, September 23, 2022. The suspect earlier confessed to committing the crime and said that he “thought” his spouse was having an affair with someone else and killed his wife in an act of self-defence.