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Raids at Best Bakery, Zaheera kin held

Police raided the premises in Vadodara and arrested one person on prohibition charges, officials said on Sunday.

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AHMEDABAD: Police raided the Best Bakery premises in Vadodara, infamous for the torching incident during the 2002 communal riots, and arrested one person on prohibition charges, officials said here on Sunday.
 
The raid was conducted after prohibition department officials got a tip-off that Heena Sheikh, sister-in-law of Zaheera Sheikh, the prime witness in the Best Bakery case, had allegedly stocked liquor on the premises, police said.
 
Panigate police seized bottles of beer and Indian-made foreign liquor, and arrested Heena on prohibition charges.
    
Best Bakery, owned by Zaheera's father, was occupied by her brother Nafitullah and his wife Heena though the business was not revived after the March 1, 2002, incident.
 
Twenty-one persons were killed after a mob set them ablaze the bakery during the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat.
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