A prosecution witness deposed that gadgets and other stuff produced in court here today were recovered from the house of prime accused Zahida Parveez, who allegedly hired professional sharpshooters to kill activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal, three years ago.
Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) witness and Punjab National Bank (PNB) officer Prem Prakash Dabriya told the special court of Judge Rajeev Kumar Ayachi that four mobile phone instruments, a laptop, a camera and two CDs among a dozen things were seized and sealed at Zahida's place on February 28, 2012. He deposed that he signed the seizure report.
Dabriya told the court that he was posted with PNB Bhopal's legal cell between April 2011 and November 2103. He deposed that his superior asked him to stand witness to the seizure from Zahida's place.
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Replying to the cross examination of defence counsel, he said that he neither knew the owner of the seized stuff nor nor the person who used it.
CBI officer Amitosh Kumar who was scheduled to depose in the court here, didn't turn up because he was busy at another court's proceeding in Chandigarh.
The date of the next hearing of the case has been fixed for January 9.
Right To Information (RTI) activist Shehla Masood was shot dead on August 16, 2011.
Zahida, an interior designer and her friend Saba Farooqui, as well as three others namely Shaqib Ali, Tabish and Irfan have been charged with the killing.
Accused Irfan has turned approver in the case.
According to the prosecution, Zahida got Shehla eliminated out of jealousy because the former did not the latter's growing intimacy with the then BJP MLA Dhruvnarayan Singh, who has been given a clean chit in the case by the CBI.
Both were friendly to the former BJP MLA.
