Jealousy, greed prompted Tak to kill Laila, family

Step father Parvez Tak eliminated Bollywood starlet Laila Khan and five members of her family as he did not like their continuing proximity to her mother's second husband and the family's decision to relocate to Dubai made him feel abandoned, police claimed today.

The interrogation of Tak, a small-time contractor from Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir, unfolded a saga of jealousy, deceit and greed, chief of Mumbai police's crime branch Himanshu Roy, told reporters here.

Tak, the third husband of Laila's mother Shelina, said he wiped out the entire family due to its continued reliance on Ashif Sheikh, her second husband. "Tak did not like that Sheikh was still maintaining contact with the family. He did not like that it trusted Sheikh so much. The family's decision to relocate to Dubai also made him feel abandoned as he did not have a passport," Roy said.

What further irked Tak was the fact that the family was in the process of disposing of their properties before migrating to Dubai for which Shelina had got ready a Power of Attorney in favour of Sheikh, he said.

On the fateful night of February 7 last year, Tak had a heated argument with Shelina (51) at the family's farmhouse in Igatpuri near Nashik after which he hit her with a blunt object, causing her death.

As other members of the family--Laila (30), elder sister Azmina (32), twin siblings Zara and Imran (25) and cousin Reshma alias Tulli--came running down from the first floor, Tak called Shakir Hussain Wani, also from Kishtwar, whom he had appointed as watchman two months before the incident, and the two had a scuffle with them.