IANS/Mumbai/Jammu


Where is fringe Bollywood actress Laila Khan? The mystery continues after her stepfather and suspected militant Parvez Iqbal Tak told the Jammu and Kashmir police that she and four of her family members were killed but her father Nadir Shah Patel challenged the contention in Mumbai yesterday.
Tak, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba extremist arrested in Jammu and Kashmir on June 21, told the police that Laila Khan - missing since February 2011 – was killed along with four other members of her family and their bodies disposed of somewhere near Mumbai.
Laila’s father Patel questioned Tak’s contention and accused him of attempting to defraud him in a realty matter in Mumbai.
Speaking to a private news channel in Mumbai, Patel said he did not “believe” Tak’s claim that Laila, her mother Saleena Begum, siblings Zara, Imran, cousin Reshma and a domestic help were killed and their bodies disposed of somewhere around Mumbai in February 2011.
Giving vital leads in a case that has long confounded investigators, Tak told the police that five to six people were involved in the killing of Laila and her family.
Laila, whose original name is Reshma Patel, was last seen in a 2008 movie Wafaa with Rajesh Khanna.
According to sources, the Mumbai police had found Laila to have questionable links which allegedly led to her disappearance from Mumbai in February 2011.