The Gujarat Police is considering arresting Shamima Begum, mother of Ishrat Jahan Sheikh who was gunned down on June 15 along with three others in Ahmedabad.
The Gujarat Police claims that the 19-year-old Mumbai college student and the three people accompanying her were Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists out to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Home ministry sources told rediff.com that Shamima could be arrested because there is 'enough evidence' of her being a party to the alleged conspiracy to kill Modi.
"Our probe has made it clear that Ishrat, her mother Shamima and Javed were in close contact since long time. Both had visited Lucknow and Faizabad and visited Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar twice," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) D G Vanzara told reporters in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
A senior officer of crime branch was sent to Lucknow and other places to get more proof.
Sources also told rediff.com that Lucknow Police has also confirmed that Ishrat and her mother had visited a hotel in the city.
They added that Mumbai Police has confirmed that Javed was introduced to Ishrat and her mother in a Kalyan hotel by neighbours Rasheed and Pervez
One sources said eye witnesses to these meetings will soon give their account on oath, under section 164 of the Indian Penal Code.
"Once these statements are recorded it will be difficult to not arrest Shamima," the source.added The Crime Branch is also interrogating Shivchand Chaudhary, Ishrat's neighbour in Mumbra.
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