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Zahira, mother lied in Best Bakery case, says kin

Zahira, mother lied in Best Bakery case, says kin

Author: Times News Network
Publication: The Times of India
Date: July 22, 2003

Zahira Shaikh's disgruntled sister-in-law Yasmin Banu Shaikh has joined the long list of eyewitnesses of the Best Bakery carnage who have come out in the open and said they would like to tell the court "the real truth".

Yasmin is the 20-year-old estranged wife of Zahira's brother Nafitullah and was present at the bakery when the carnage occurred.  She alleges that both Zahira and her mother Shehrunissa are lying.  According to her, 21 persons, who were accused and later acquitted by the fast track court of judge H.U. Mahida, were never part of the mob.

"I have come out in tile open now because I want to save Chandrakant Bhattu (municipal councillor) and Madhu Shrivastav (BJP MLA) as they had saved us when the mob attacked the bakery," she told TNN on phone from Chotta Udepur where she now lives.  "Both Zahira and my mother-in-law are trying to falsely implicate Bhattu and Shrivastav and put them in trouble."

She claims Zahira and Sheherunissa forced her to leave for Chhota Udepur with her uncle when he came to visit her in the SSG Hospital.  "They were afraid that I would speak the truth.  So, they sent me away I now live with my mother and two-year-old daughter Tanvir Banu and survive by working as a domestic."

Incidentally, Nafitullah is believed to have an illegitimate relationship with a Hindu woman from Hanuman Tekri, Kailas Vasava, who has changed her name to Heena.  They also have a child from this relationship.  Yasmin also accepts that ,be has known Bhattu, who used to regularly frequent the area before the carnage, but she has never met Madhu Shrivastav.
 


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