Publication Date:
Wed, 2005-03-30 03:00
NEW DELHI, 30 March 2005 — Zaheera Sheikh, a key witness in the case relating to the 2002 massacre in a Gujarat bakery, yesterday urged the Supreme Court to probe the assets of rights activist Teesta Setalvad, who had been pressing for a retrial of the case outside the state in the interests of justice.
In an affidavit filed before an inquiry committee of the Supreme Court, Zaheera also questioned the basis on which the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had asked for 12 cases relating to the case to be transferred outside the state.
Fourteen people were torched to death in the ovens of the Best Bakery in Baroda on March 1, 2002, during the Gujarat riots.
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