Vadodara: Rejecting the allegation that the prime witness in the Best bakery case Zaheera was "threatened to lie in the court", her sister-in-law Yasmin Banu on July 20 said she would urge the National Human Rights Commission not to concede to the demand of reopening the case.

Yasmin Banu Sheikh, wife of the Best bakery owner Nafitullah, said on July 20 that Zaheera and her mother Sehrunissa were not threatened to lie during trial as claimed by them. "None of the 21 persons acquitted in the case were involved in the massacre. In fact the people staying in the area had saved them."

Yasmin alleged that since she was against mentioning of names of persons from the area by Zaheera and Sehrunissa, she was driven out of the house soon after the Best bakery incident on March 1 last year in which 12 persons were burnt alive and two others were missing.

Zaheera had urged for reopening of the case outside Gujarat alleging that she was being threatened to lie in the court.

Yasmin Banu, who is in Chhotaudepur, 100 km from Vadodara, said she was prepared to go to Delhi to meet the Commission members in this regard.

The NHRC team had visited Vadodara after the acquittal of 21 persons in Best bakery case to examine the documents pertaining to the case, terming the verdict as "miscarriage of justice".

PTI