Sajida, a teacher, had re-married an auto-driver and was residing in Kondhwa.
While Gujarat high court has observed that fresh FIR needs to be filed against police officers involved in the fake encounter killing of Pune-based Javed Shaikh, Ishrat Jahan and two others on June 15, 2004, in Pune, the troubles for Shaikh's widow, Sajida ,don't seem to have ended.
About a month ago, the central agencies had sent a letter to the city police to "investigate" Sajida's "possible terror links" in the city.
Police sources attached to the Special Branch told DNA on Monday that about a month ago, the city police had received a letter from one of the central agencies for information on Shaikh's widow. "We received a letter from the agencies asking us to check Sajida's whereabouts and her activities in the city. We then gathered information about her," a police official said.
According to the police, Sajida, an English medium school teacher, had re-married an auto-driver and was residing in Kondhwa area.
Javed, who was originally Pranesh Kumar Pillai, had changed his name to Javed Shaikh after embracing Islam to marry Sajida. Javed had completed his ITI (electrical) course from Kerala before moving to Dubai for a job. After his return from Dubai, he took up petty jobs in Pune to earn a livelihood and used to stay at Mohammedi Mansion in Kondhwa, Pune.
Sajida was quoted by PTI on Monday as saying that the development in Gujarat High Court had re-affirmed her faith in the judiciary. "Since the beginning, I have been telling that my husband was not a terrorist," she said. Sajida was in Ahmednagar, when the alleged shootout had happened in 2004.
"I got a call from home in Pune saying that the crime branch officials had wanted to speak to me and thus I learnt that my husband had been shot dead by the police," she said.
Javed's brother Asif who lives in Pune and runs a transport business told DNA, "We knew from the first day that Javed was innocent and the entire case was fake. We are now freed from the stigma of belonging to a terrorist's family. We are all happy but the only thing is that our brother is not with us." He said that the family had extended the fullest cooperation to the police. He hoped that society would not harass or shun his family like before.
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