Alleging shoddy probe, Laila's father refuses to take skeletal

Almost three years after starlet Laila Khan and five of her family members were killed, her father Nadir Patel has refused to take custody of their skeletal remains, claiming that the city police has botched up the investigation even as he sought a CBI probe in the case.
Patel also alleged that the real culprits in the case were not held and they have been roaming fearlessly.
"Sometime back, I told court here, that I will not take custody of the skeletal remains (of my family) as the investigation carried out by the Mumbai police crime branch is very shoddy. Police have botched up the probe due to which real culprits are scot-free now," Patel told PTI here today.

Mumbai police crime branch had arrested Parvez Tak, stepfather of Laila and chargesheeted him for murdering the actress and five of her family members.
The 924-page chargesheet was filed in October last year in the metropolitan magistrate court by Crime Branch against the Kishtwar-based contractor for killing Laila (30), her mother Shelina (51), elder sister Azmina (32), twin siblings Zara and Imran (25) and cousin Reshma.
Laila and her family had gone missing from Mumbai in February 2011. A case of kidnapping was registered at the Oshiwara police station here on July 3 on a complaint by her biological father Nadir Patel.

Tak, the third husband of Laila's mother Shelina, had allegedly told investigators that he wiped out the entire family due to their continued reliance on Ashif Sheikh, her second husband, police said.