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Laila Khan case: Sequence of events reconstructed

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Press Trust of India Mumbai

The team, along with Tak, reached the bungalow this morning and carried out extensive search operation, where they had collected a few sticks that could have been used while executing the crime, a senior police official said.

"Our team has also employed a few labourers in the area to assist in the search. There are about 25 to 30 people including policemen, forensic experts and labourers, who searched every nook and cranny of the bungalow," a crime branch official added.

Tak explained how he executed the crime from start to end, the official said.

However, the official refused to comment, when asked whether there were any contradictions in the previous claims made by the accused.

 

"The team has also talked to the local people to know about the details of Khan's family stay. Through the locals' versions, we would be able know when the family had come to the bungalow for the stay, for how long they stayed and other day-to-day activities, etc," Additional Police Commissioner (Crime) Niket Kaushik said.

The investigating team is likely to come back to Mumbai tonight, police said adding that their efforts to trace Tak's associate Shakir Hussain have not yielded any results. (More)

  

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First Published: Jul 17 2012 | 8:35 PM IST

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