Asif Sheikh sold family shop in connivance with police officers

Nadir Shah Patel father of actress Laila Khan who,along with five family members,was allegedly murdered at her Igatpuri farmhouse last year filed an affidavit in the Bombay High Court on Tuesday stating that after his family went missing,Asif Sheikh,named by the police as the second husband of Lailas mother Shelina,sold a shop owned by Lailas sister Azmina in Lokhandwala,Andheri (W).

Nadir Shah Patel father of actress Laila Khan who,along with five family members,was allegedly murdered at her Igatpuri farmhouse last year filed an affidavit in the Bombay High Court on Tuesday stating that after his family went missing,Asif Sheikh,named by the police as the second husband of Lailas mother Shelina,sold a shop owned by Lailas sister Azmina in Lokhandwala,Andheri (W).

On July 5,Patel had registered a complaint with the Mumbai Police Crime Branch at the Oshiwara police station alleging that Sheikh and Pervez Ahmed Tak,Shelinas third husband and prime accused in the murders,had kidnapped the six. In the murder case being probed by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch,however,Sheikh has not been named as accused.

Patel had filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking transfer of the investigation to the CBI. The affidavit,filed through lawyer Ejaz Naqvi,stated that Azmina owned a shop in Lokhandwala that was worth Rs 2-3 crore. He said it was rented out for Rs 1,50,000 per month. In March,Sheikh sold the shop to a person named Narula without seeking the permission of any family member,Patel alleged.

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Lailas father also claimed that the police have wrongly informed the media that the shop was sold by Azmina and its sale did not require to be probed. He said he suspected the involvement of police officers in the alleged illegal sale of shop number 17 in the Anchor Building in Lokhandwala. His affidavit stated that he has good reasons to believe that the money obtained through the sale was shared by Sheikh and some police officers.

Patel said a probe into the calls made by police officers and Sheikh will throw light on the shady deals made by them using a forged sale agreement of the victims property.

The petition is likely to be heard by the court on July 26.

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