Zaheera had offered money to bakery victim's wife Wednesday, December 1 2004 21:58 Hrs (IST)
Mumbai:
Shahjehan, the wife of a Best Bakery worker Quasar Ali, who has been declared "missing" by police, today (Dec 1, 2004) deposed before a special court in Mumbai saying that she was offered money by Zaheera Sheikh and her mother Sehrunissa for a compromise.
Breaking down before the court, she made this statement but it was not taken on record on the prosecution's plea.
Shahjehan said that the Sheikhs had told her that they would soon reach a compromise and that they would receive money for it. Shahjehan added that she was offered half the money that would have come by way of compromise. She said this talk took place about 6-7 months after the riots.
She, however, did not mention any name with whom the deal was being struck and also did not say what kind of compromise it would have been.
Shahjehan said that she came to court to seek justice as she came to know that Nafitullah, brother of Zaheera and an eyewitness, had claimed that he did not know what happened to her husband.
She told the court that she was yet to receive a compensation as her husband was shown missing.
Shahjehan also said that Zaheera had called her to inform about the burning down of bakery and had said that Quasar had been thrown into the furnace by violent crowd.
During the cross examination, however, defence lawyer D S Jambaulikar pointed out to her that the police had recorded her statement wherein Quasar had been shown as missing.
She, however, stuck to her version and said she did not know why police showed her husband as missing in her statement.
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