NEW DELHI, 9 November 2004 — Key witness in the Best Bakery case Zaheera Sheikh has moved the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) alleging that she was being “pressurized” by social activist Teesta Setalvad and her NGO and pleaded helplessness on account of belonging to a minority community.
“We received a letter from her (Zaheera) today in which she has complained of being coerced to name innocent persons in the case by Setalvad and her NGO. She has written that she is feeling helpless as she belongs to a minority community,” NCM Chairman Tarlochan Singh said here.
Zaheera also repeated her allegations that she was forcibly taken to Bombay by some locals.
