CBI has included the statement of Sheikh's wife Sajida as witness number 42 in its charge sheet wherein she identified the photograph of Rana as her husband Sheikh's friend Bunty who had stayed with them at their house in Mumbai.
The agency in its charge sheet had mentioned that Rana was intercepted by a team of subsidiary Intelligence Bureau and Gujarat Police crime branch officials on May 25 and was kept in illegal confinement.
Sajida is understood to have told the investigators that Sheikh had visited Oman in April and returned from there with Rs 2.5 lakh cash, a satellite phone and also some mobile phones. When asked about the money, Sheikh told her that the money belonged to some customer and had to be returned.
The witness told that Sheikh paid back Rs 1 lakh and of the remaining Rs 1.5 lakh, he bought a second hand Blue Indica in which he was allegedly killed by a team of Gujarat Police Crime Branch team.
She said after the encounter death of her husband she came to know that the person named Amjad Ali who also died in the encounter was the same person named Bunty who had stayed with them at their Mumbai house.
"Now on being shown the photograph of Amjad Ali, I identify him as Bunty," she had said in her statement.
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