Sara’s mother ‘confronts’ Amanmani in jail with queries

“He answered a few questions but I know it was a murder,” Seema said while discussing details of the 45-minute-long meeting. “When I asked him why did he murder her, he said it was a road accident. When I asked him why he was not hurt, he said he does not know,” she said.

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During their conversation, Amanmani reportedly told Seema that neither he nor Sara were wearing seat belts and that the car was being driven (by him) at a speed of about 120 km per hour.

“How is it possible that one person gets killed while the other is not hurt if the vehicle was moving so fast?” Seema told this correspondent, reiterating that her daughter’s “murder was staged to make it look like a car accident”.

According to Seema, Amanmani asked her if the case has been registered against him. “When I said it has, he asked if I had got the copy of the FIR. I did not answer”.

In the FIR lodged at Sirsaganj police station of Firozabad district, Amanmani and “his family members” have been booked under IPC Sections 302 (murder), 498A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 120B(criminal conspiracy).

She said she again asked him why did he kill Sara, to which  Amanmani said that he was “innocent” and that she can get any investigation conducted to satisfy herself. “He kept saying that he was innocent. He even said that his relationship with Sara was more immediate than mine. I told him that I am her mother,” Seema told The Indian Express.

She, however, clarified that the CBI “will be in a better position to investigate the case” and repeated that she will meet Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to request him to transfer the case to the central investigating agency.

Seema was accompanied by her son (and Sara’s younger brother) Siddharth to the jail. Siddharth said that Amanmani told them during the meeting that he was slightly hurt in the accident (on July 9) whereas he had earlier claimed that he was not. He pointed out another “differing statement”, saying Amanmani told them on Sunday that Sara had died on the spot but he had earlier said that she was taken to the hospital where he had searched all over for a ventilator for her before the doctors declared her dead.

Sara’s family believes she was “murdered” and has met all the top authorities – from the Governor to UP DGP to Lucknow SSP, submitting applications for a CBI inquiry.

On July 9, Sara and Amanmani were travelling to Delhi when their car reportedly met with an accident on National Highway-2 in Firozabad district. Amanmani, son of former UP minister Amarmani who is serving life term after being convicted in a 2003 murder case, had escaped unhurt. He was subsequently arrested by the police as he was absconding in a case of kidnapping lodged against him by a Lucknow-based contractor in August last year.