In a startling revelation made by Parvez Tak to the Kashmir police, missing Bollywood starlet Laila Khan was shot dead along with four family members in a Mumbai suburb in February 2011.
They were allegedly killed by local financier Asif Sheikh and real estate developer Afghan Khan along with accomplices. They wanted to lay their hands on her property and that of mother Selina Begum, divorced wife of Nadir Shah Patel, a Mumbai businessman.
Maharashtra ATS sources said they had nabbed Asif and handed him over to the crime branch. A Mumbai police team is in Kashmir to take custody of Tak.
Laila, alleged to have terror links, went missing along with four family members in February 2011. The police started investigating on a missing complaint from her father Nadir Patel. After the case started getting murkier by the day, it was handed over to the crime branch on Wednesday.
Based on Nadir’s complaint, a kidnapping case was registered against Asif Sheikh and Parvez Tak.