teesta for lokpal! Teesta 'lured' me into lying: Best Bakery witness to HC

apr 29th, 2011 CE

so zaheera shaikh was tried and convicted of perjury for lying in court. so, there are actual perjury laws in india. hallelujah! i thought there weren't any.

but of course, teesta, being who she is ("communism wombat"), is above the law, and she cannot be convicted of perjury. the perjury law, and the indian constitution, do not apply to her. all indians are equal, but some are more equal than others. teesta is the most equal of all (with the exception of rahul, who is even more equal than her. mteresa and white women in general are also even more equal than teesta). teesta ki jai ho!

teesta should be made lokpal, along with genocide suzie (they should alternate every other week. every one of their decisions, i forecast, will be "off with their hindu heads").

what happened to the legal dictum "no innocent should ever be punished, even if a hundred guilty go free"?

of course, that only applies to those who have human rights. not to the hindus of gujarat, certainly not to the 9 who have been convicted on evidence that yasmeen, who gave the evidence, has repeatedly said -- apparently because of her conscience -- was false and prompted. 

teesta should also be given the nobel peace prize and the bharat ratna and the magsaysay right away. what, she hasn't got the magsaysay yet? jeez! the ford foundation sleeping? get with the program!

a 100-ft statue of teesta should be erected at the gateway of india like the 'statue of liberty' in new york harbor. the statue should be called the 'statue of nehruvian stalinist india'. it should be complete with giant 6ft-radius bindi (trademark of brinda 'bindi' karat).

all who come to mumbai can read the inscription on the statue, thanks to shelley:

"look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

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Teesta 'lured' me into lying: Best Bakery witness to HC

April 30, 2011   12:13:02 AM

PTI | Mumbai

Shaikh Yasmeen Bano, a key prosecution witness in the 2002 Best Bakery case, has moved

the Bombay High Court alleging that she was "lured and misguided" by Teesta Setalvad into

 giving false testimony against 17 accused persons.

Nine of the seventeen Bano testified against have been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Yasmeen filed the petition earlier this week, after no action was taken on her letter dated

June 17, 2010 addressed to the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court.

"Yasmeen gave false deposition against the accused and identified them falsely at the behest and advice of Teesta

Setalvad only in the false hope that she (Teesta) would help her financially," the petition states.

It further claims that Setalvad had made Yasmeen an instrument to achieve the ulterior goal. "Yasmeen was

obsessed with the idea of getting money from Teesta and hence she did not think much about the repercussion of

her false deposition against innocent persons. She is however repenting now," the petition states.

Yasmeen has sought that her evidence be recorded afresh by the High Court while hearing the appeal filed by the

nine convicted accused challenging the trial court's order.

Yasmeen was the only prosecution witness from the Shaikh family who stood by the police's case against the 17

accused. Rest of the family, including prime witness and Yasmeen's sister-in-law Zaheera Shaikh, had turned

hostile, alleging that they were forced by Setalvad to lie. 

According to Yasmeen, one Rais Khan, who is a close associate of Setalvad, had met her along with local Muslim

leaders claiming that her life was in danger in Gujarat and she should shift to Mumbai where she would be taken

care of.

In February 2006, the sessions court here sentenced nine accused to life imprisonment. The court later tried and

convicted Zaheera and others who had turned hostile for perjury.

Fourteen people who had taken refuge in the Best Bakery -- owned by the Shaikh family -- in Vadodara were

killed on March 1, 2002, during the post-Godhra riots.

All the convicts have filed appeals in the Bombay High Court, which are yet to come up for hearing.