Mumbai: Yet another witness in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case turned hostile on Wednesday. The witness, a lady, who was travelling in the same bus from which the police allegedly kidnapped Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi, is the 50th witness in this case to turn hostile.
In her statement, recorded in March 2010, Manjusha Apte had said that she was travelling to Hyderabad from her hometown in Sangli in a bus with her husband and in-laws on November 19, 2005 as her father-in-law was invited to attend a book release function.
According to her statement, all the passengers were sleeping in the bus during their journey but they woke up due to the sudden brake applied by the bus driver around 12 in the night.
A few persons then entered the bus and said they were from the police and took two persons, which included a burka clad woman, with them and alighted from the bus.
However, on Wednesday she told the court that she had not witnessed anything as she was sleeping during the entire journey and is not aware if the police took any passenger from the bus.
Earlier, her husband and father-in-law had also turned hostile in this case.
