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Submit details of assets, SC tells Zahira
Legal Correspondent

New Delhi, February 21
The Supreme Court today directed Best Bakery case key witness Zahira Sheikh to furnish records of her bank accounts and properties following allegations that she had been won over by the Gujarat Government.

A Bench of Mr Justice Arijit Pasayat and Mr Justice S H Kapadia directed that she should file details about the source of her income, money deposited in her bank account and any property purchased by her, while hearing a petition of NGO activist Teesta Setalwad, who had sought inquiry into Zahira’s changing stand in Best Bakery case.

Zahira’s counsel P. N. Lekhi, who also had demanded furnishing of similar details by Teesta, whom the Best Bakery key witness had accused of coercing her to depose in the case in a particular manner, told the Bench that they would submit every details required by the court.

Bilkis narrates rape incident in court

Mumbai, February 21
Bilkis Bano, prime witness in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape-cum-murder case, today deposed before a trial court here in-camera for the first time and narrated incidents of the gang-rape and murder that unfolded on March 3, 2002, at Dahod in Gujarat claiming eight lives.

Deposing before the court for two hours amidst tight security, Bilkis supported the prosecution’s case but could not complete her story.

Her deposition would continue tomorrow, prosecutor R K Shah said. — PTI