Yasmin Sheikh, the fourth eye-witness in the Best Bakery case, today identified in court eleven accused, as members of the mob that attacked the Best Bakery in Vadodara on March 1, 2002. Yasmin Sheikh is the sister-in-law of prime witness Zaheera Sheikh.Yasmin Sheikh, who was dressed in a dark salwar kameez, with a scarf on her head, recognised eleven of the accused during the identification parade. She named ten of accused, but said she could not remember the name of the eleventh person. The accused identified by name were Sanjay Ratilalthakkar, Pankaj Gosai, Jagdeep Chunilal Rajbhar, Samabhai Baria, Shailendra Tadvi, Ravi Rajaram Chavan, Rajubhai Baria, Dinesh Rajbhar, Yasin and Haresh Desai. There were four other accused who had assaulted her family, Sheikh told the court, adding that they were not present before the court. The four accused were Jayanti Chaiwalla, Mafat, Munna and Rinkoo, she said.She said that on the day of the incident, the mob, armed with swords and bamboo sticks, attacked the Bakery. Sheikh said that she and her family were in the adjacent house and the crowd bolted the doors from outside. They later asked the inmates to come out, she said, adding that her husband Nafitullah and three others — Raju, Poufel and Riyaz — were beaten up after they came out of the house. She was confined to a room and the crowd threatened to molest her, Sheikh said.
