No reason to rejoice or be sad: Bheda’s frightened wife

S Ahmed Ali | TNN

July 13, 2013
Mumbai: Aruna, wife of deceased key witness Anil Bheda in the Lakhan Bhaiya case, says she has been scared ever since her husband was mysteriously killed and burnt in the Manor jungles of Thane, soon after the encounter in 2006.
    “I don’t have any reason to rejoice or be saddened. I lost my husband. I don’t want to say anything on the case,” said Aruna when TOI contacted her. On November 11, 2006, estate agent Anil Bheda and Lakhan Bhaiya had gone to refill a SIM card when plain-clothes policemen picked them up and took them separately to the D N Nagar police station.
    Bheda later gave a statement saying that the next day he was told that Lakhan Bhaiya was killed in a police encounter. The police then took him to Kolhapur before bringing him back and keeping him in a hotel in Andheri. He was allegedly threatened with Lakhan Bhaiya’s fate if he revealed anything.
    Bheda told the magistrate that on the fateful day he left for Shirdi and didn’t know where Gupta had gone. Later, when the SIT started probing, Bheda told the truth and started getting threat calls.
WHO IS BHEDA? He is the prime witness in the
    case who gave a statement that the day after he and Lakhan Bhaiya were picked up by plain-clothes policemen, he was told that Lakhan Bhaiya was killed in a police encounter
HOW DID HE DIE His burnt body was found in the Manor jungles of Thane soon after the encounter