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| | Laila Khan mystery deepens: Did step-father hack her, family to death? | | | MUMBAI, July (Agencies): A local court on Monday remanded forest contractor Parvez Tak to police custody till July 19 in connection with the kidnapping case of Pakistani-origin Bollywood starlet Laila Khan.
The prosecution told the court that they want to find out where Tak has kept Laila Khan and other five members of the family or whether he has killed them. As of now, Tak has been booked for kidnapping though he reportedly confessed before the Jammu and Kashmir Police that he had killed them.
Crime branch sources said that they will interrogate Tak in connection with the alleged abduction case of Laila Khan and her other five family members. Tak, arrested by Jammu and Kashmir Police, had reportedly told the interrogators that Laila and others were shot dead in Maharashtra last year.
However, Crime Branch is not ready to believe Tak's version yet as Parvez Ahmad Tak kept on changing his statements and later confessed to the police that he had beaten his wife, his stepdaughter and her siblings to death with an iron rod.
Tak told the Jammu & Kashmir Police that Laila had seen him kill her mother after an argument, and that he was forced to kill his stepdaughter to "remove evidence". He insisted that he had no plans to kill anyone, and that he had committed the crimes in "a fit of rage".
These shocking revelations are part of the statement recorded by the Jammu & Kashmir police and admitted in Kishtwar court on Saturday and it was based on this statement that Mumbai Crime Branch was given Tak's custody.
The Crime Branch of Mumbai Police, which is probing the alleged kidnapping of Laila Khan and her family, had said on July 6 that four members of the family were last located at Igatpuri in Nashik district of Maharashtra, but not Laila and her elder sister.
"The last location of four people -- Laila's mother Shelina (50), twin siblings Zara and Imran, and another relative -- was Igatpuri. But we suspect that it is not Igatpuri in Laila's case," a senior official said.
The kidnappers apparently took Laila and her elder sister Hazmina somewhere else, he said.
"It is also possible that Laila and her sister might not have gone to Igatpuri at all. We should wait... Tak is constantly changing his statement," the official said.
The starlet and her family went missing from here in February last year. A case of kidnapping was registered at the Oshiwara police station here July 5, on the complaint of her father Nadir Patel.
According to the complaint, Tak and his accomplice Asif kidnapped Laila and others. Asif Shaikh was arrested here on July 5.
The Bollywood starlet is accused of having links with LeT. The anti-terrorist agencies believe that she could have helped terrorists in scouting for areas in Mumbai city, when the terrorists were planning to execute the attacks.
There are several theories behind Laila's mysterious disappearance from her Mumbai residence last year. While the arrested suspects stuck to their claims of killing Laila and her family, other reports suggested that she flew to Dubai on a fake passport and was married to a close aide of India's most-wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim. |
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