Police reach Ayesha’s home for investigation

Zeenews Bureau

Hyderabad: A special crime branch team led by ACP Muralidhar Rao has reached the home of Ayesha Siddiqui, who is claiming to be Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik’s wife and leveling charges of cheating against the Pakistani player, for investigation. Earlier in the day, five teams of the Central Crime Station, a special unit of the Andhra Pradesh police department, have been formed to investigate into the Shoaib Malik-Ayesha Siddiqui controversy. The officials will be grilling a number of people involved in the case and gather new evidence as the Pakistani cricketer is barred from leaving India till he can clear his name off any malice against him. One team will be questioning Ayesha Siddiqui, the Hyderabad girl who claims to be his wife and try to get her version of the story as well. A second team will gather and examine all the medical proofs of pregnancy and Shoaib’s links with it while a third one will go looking for proofs of stay in the hotels where the cricketer allegedly spent nights with Ayesha. A fourth team is going to question Shoaib again. Things have been turbulent for the cricketer as reports suggested that he would go for an anticipatory bail as he would be questioned again on Tuesday. This came after Ayesha told the police that she had evidence of her pregnancy. A final fifth team will meanwhile head to the middle-east to get information of the couple’s alleged trysts in the UAE and the nearby region. The police on Monday had grilled Malik in the wake of criminal cases lodged against him by the father of Ayesha. A police team led by an assistant commissioner of police (ACP) quizzed 28-year-old Shoaib for close to two hours at the residence of tennis star 23-year-old Sania Mirza, to whom he is scheduled to get married on April 15. The Hyderabad Police have recorded the ace cricketer’s statement and have also impounded his passport. He has also been asked not to leave Hyderabad city limits till the investigations are on.