The troubles for Javed Shaikh’s widow, Sajida, do not seem to have ended even now. About a month ago, central agencies had sent a letter to the city police to investigate Sajida’s “possible terror links” in the city.
The troubles for Javed Shaikh’s widow, Sajida, do not seem to have ended even now. About a month ago, central agencies had sent a letter to the city police to investigate Sajida’s “possible terror links” in the city.
Sources attached to the special branch of the police told DNA on Monday, “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.”
According to the police, Sajida, an English-medium schoolteacher, has re-married and is residing in Kondhwa area.
Shaikh, who was originally Pranesh Kumar Pillai, had changed his name to Javed Shaikh after embracing Islam to marry Sajida in 1995. Shaikh had completed his ITI (electrical) course from Kerala before moving to Dubai for a job.
On his return, he took up petty jobs in Pune to earn a livelihood and used to stay at Mohammedi Mansion in Kondhwa, Pune.
Sajida told DNA on Monday that the Gujarat high court’s decision 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 shoot-out happened in 2004. “I got a call from home in Pune saying that the crime branch officials wanted to speak to me, and I learnt that my husband had been shot dead by the police,” she said.
Sajida’s cousin, 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 free of the stigma of belonging to a terrorist’s family. We are all happy, but the only thing is that Javed is not with us.”
He said that the family had extended full cooperation to the police. He hoped that society would not harass or shun his family like before.
In September 2009, when a judicial inquiry report had revealed that Shaikh had been killed in an encounter along with three others, Sajida had demanded stringent punishment for the guilty policemen.
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