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Police urged for security to Best Bakery witnesses
Vadodara, Oct 07: The city police has urged its counterparts in Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to make security arrangements for Zahira, a key witness in Best Bakery case and five other witnesses.
Vadodara, Oct 07: The city police has urged its counterparts in Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to make security arrangements for Zahira, a key witness in Best Bakery
case and five other witnesses.
City Police Commissioner Sudhir Kumar Sinha today said he has written letter to his counterpart in Mumbai to provide police protection to Zahira.
Police have also urged its counterparts in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to provide police protection to the eyewitnesses staying in both these states, Sinha told a news agency here.
Four employees of Best Bakery, witnesses in the CAS are staying in Uttar Pradesh and one in Bihar. Police have also been requested to record the statement of four witnesses in up as police could not record them here, Sinha said.
The local police have already recorded the statement of Tahira, sister of Zahira, before she left for Bihar to meet her in-laws.
Sinha said police had provided protection outside Tahira's house following reports about her getting threats. However, it was later withdrawn at her request, stating that she had not received any threat. Meanwhile, police have provided security to six eyewitnesses in the case staying in the city. They are Yasminbanu, Bhikhiben Yasinbhi, Bharat alias Makio Ishwar Tadvi, Virsinh alias Veeru Chandra Sijala, Bharat alias Santosh Ratilal Thakkar and Poonam Ambala Rathod.
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Police have also urged its counterparts in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to provide police protection to the eyewitnesses staying in both these states, Sinha told a news agency here.
Four employees of Best Bakery, witnesses in the CAS are staying in Uttar Pradesh and one in Bihar. Police have also been requested to record the statement of four witnesses in up as police could not record them here, Sinha said.
The local police have already recorded the statement of Tahira, sister of Zahira, before she left for Bihar to meet her in-laws.
Sinha said police had provided protection outside Tahira's house following reports about her getting threats. However, it was later withdrawn at her request, stating that she had not received any threat. Meanwhile, police have provided security to six eyewitnesses in the case staying in the city. They are Yasminbanu, Bhikhiben Yasinbhi, Bharat alias Makio Ishwar Tadvi, Virsinh alias Veeru Chandra Sijala, Bharat alias Santosh Ratilal Thakkar and Poonam Ambala Rathod.
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