Mumbai, November 16
Yasmin Sheikh, sister-in-law of Zaheera Sheikh, today identified 11 of the accused in the Best Bakery case at a special court here.

Yasmin, the fourth eyewitness to do so, told the court that all eleven accused were part of the mob that attacked Best Bakery in Vadodara on March 1, 2002.

She identified 10 of them as Sanjay Ratilal Thakkar, Pankaj Gosai, Jagdeep Chunilal Rajbhar, Samabhai Baria, Shailendra Tadvi, Ravi Rajaram Chavan, Rajubhai Baria, Dinesh Rajbhar, Yasin and Haresh Desai. She could not remember the name of the last one.

According to Yasmin, four other accused, Jayanti Chaiwalla, Mafat, Munna and Rinkoo, were not present in the court.

Yasmin told the court that the mob had descended on the bakery in the aftermath of the Godhra incident. She added that her relatives were locked up in their home adjacent to the bakery. Some of them who came out were attacked and later burnt alive by the mob.

Fourteen persons were killed when a mob attacked Best Bakery in Vadodara on March 1, 2002.

Yasmin’s testimony comes nearly a fortnight after her sister-in-law Zaheera turned hostile.

PTI adds: The prime witness in the Best Bakery case, Zaheera Sheikh, and her two brothers are likely to appear before the special court tomorrow in response to the summons issued to them, prosecution sources said here today. The summons have been served on them in Gujarat, the sources said.