Starlet Laila Khan to enter Bigg Boss 6

Laila to enter 'Bigg Boss' house as a wildcard entry thanks to her 'infamous' name

Laila N Khan was a relatively unknown name till recently. The starlet, who has done bit roles in a few films, was shocked to hear the news that Pakistani actress Laila Khan had been recently found murdered at her Igatpuri bungalow.

Incidentally, it was not just her but the makers of the reality show, too, who sat up and took notice. And sources say that it was her name that led to her being roped in for the ongoing season of Bigg Boss.

The source says, The name Laila has already created headlines. Since the starlet shares the dead Pakistani actress' name, the Bigg Boss folk decided to rope her in to create a buzz on the show. Laila has been slotted for a wild card entry soon.

A source close to the starlet says, Laila is under a confidentiality contract, so she cannot talk about it. The source adds that Laila is a big fan of the show's host Salman Khan and knows some of the participants. Laila remained unavailable for comment.

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I wanted to marry Laila, but father didn't approve

This is what Sonu alias Wafi Khan allegedly told Crime Branch during his recent interrogation

Sonu alias Wafi Khan has reportedly told Crime Branch officials that he was in love with actress Laila Khan and wanted to marry her, but his father was against the match. While being questioned by cops on July 14, Sonu revealed that he was in a relationship with the starlet — now believed murdered along with five relatives — after having met her in October 2010.

According to his statement, Sonu’s father Kamal Jadhvani was not happy about the relationship, as his son had spent lakhs of rupees in five months. Also, Laila being older than Sonu by seven years upset Kamal.

Sonu told the police that he married a manager from his own pub at Juhu, after Kamal agreed, on February 12, 2011 at a five-star hotel in the city. Sonu, who has completed his studies from Dubai, claimed he had earlier intended to marry an MTV video jockey, but then he met Laila and fell in love with her. The first meeting between the couple took place at the Qasba hotel in Oshiwara.

As soon as reports came out that Laila was missing, Kamal ordered Sonu to leave the country as he was an acquaintance of the actress and his name could crop up in the investigation. Sonu followed his father’s advice, shutting down his pub.

Sources at unit VIII of Crime Branch said they are now questioning Sonu to find out why he got married at around the same time when Laila went missing. “Sonu had fled to Dubai from where he was summoned for questioning. We would also like to know why he fled to Dubai immediately after the news of Laila being missing appeared in the media last August,” said an officer.

Crime Branch officials also asked Sonu why he had kept changing his mobile number frequently in the past one year.

Sonu also said that he had fixed up jobs for Laila and her family in Dubai. He had promised a boutique for her mother Saleena Patel, and a job for Imran, Laila’s brother, as a mobile company executive. Zara, the actress’ sister, was promised stage shows and modelling assignments.

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Forensics team hunts for fingerprints at Laila's flat

The experts, along with Crime Branch officers from unit VIII, scanned the Oshiwara apartment for five hours, looking for evidence to strengthen their case against prime murder accused Parvez Tak; fingerprints collected

Armed with a forensics team, Crime Branch officers visited Laila Khan and her deceased family’s Oshiwara flat yesterday, in search of evidence against the prime accused Parvez Tak.

Khan’s family stayed at the flat for 10 years. The forensics team, accompanied by Unit VIII officers, conducted relevant tests for more than five hours at the ground floor and the four bedrooms in flat number 104 of the Sunshine Apartments, located metres away from the Oshiwara police station.

According to the investigating officers, the tests were conducted after Tak, arrested for killing Laila and her family members, confessed that he had gone to the Oshiwara flat to rob jewellery worth lakhs.

Fingerprints have been collected from the cupboard and the locker, and will be matched against fingerprints of Tak found in the Igatpuri bungalow as well as on the murder weapon he used to kill his victims. “We need to match Tak’s fingerprints at both the places to corroborate his confession, ” said a Crime Branch officer. Tak had confessed that he had killed the family for property.

Tak also revealed that there was a party at the Oshiwara apartment the day before Laila, her mother Saleena and siblings left for Igatpuri with Tak.

“We are also looking for documents related to the property, ” added the officer.

Deepak Patangare, senior police inspector of unit VIII, confirmed the development, but refused to comment further.

Meanwhile, a team of Crime Branch officers is on the lookout for Shakir Hussain in Kashmir. Crime Branch officers said that they had information that Hussain, who helped Tak in the six murders, has been hiding in Kashmir. “We are sure that Hussain is in Kashmir, but don’t know exactly where, ” added the officer.

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Murder saga resolved with discovery of six skeletons

The mystery of the missing Bollywood startlet Laila Khan and her family was resolved Wednesday with police announcing the discovery of six skeletons and arresting her stepfather for the murders. 


Although Parvez Tak had confessed to killing the actor and her five family members in a fit of rage, Mumbai police said the murders could have been pre-planned.

Making a breakthrough in the case that had baffled everyone for months, the Crime Branch recovered the skeletons from Laila Khan's farmhouse in Igatpuri near Nashik, around 130 km from here. 

Preliminary forensic reports reveal that five of the skeletons were of women and one of a man. 

Pieces of jewellery, synthetic clothing and underclothing were found on the skeletons. 

According to police, Parvez Tak, the third husband of Laila Khan's mother Selina, said he first killed her (Selina) in a fit of rage. 

Laila and her siblings witnessed Selina's murder and so he killed them too, said police. 

"Parvez Tak confessed to having murdered Laila Khan along with her entire family. He also took help from Shakir Wani Hussain, a Kashmiri watchman he had hired two months before the incident. On Tuesday, he agreed to point out the spot where he disposed off the bodies, " Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy told reporters here. 

"Parvez Tak said he had a heated argument with Selina and killed her. Laila and her siblings were on the first floor and came down after hearing loud voices. He then killed them with the help of Shakir, " Roy said. 

Roy said police were not ruling out the possibility of the murders having being premeditated. 

"Parvez Tak was insecure about the fact that Selina was still in touch with her second husband Asif Shaikh and that she relied on him and trusted him, " Roy said.

"Moreover, Laila was married to a man who reportedly said the family would have a better life if they settled in Dubai. Selina trusted Shaikh to dispose of the family's properties in Mumbai, " he said. 


Parvez Tak did not possess a passport and felt he would be left stranded in India if the family moved to Dubai. 

Also, two months before the incident in February 2011, Parvez Tak had sacked the watchman of the farmhouse and hired Shakir Wani Hussain, a resident of Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir.

Parvez Tak, also from Kishtwar, was a small-time road contractor. He is also a suspected member of the militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. 

Police said that after the murders, Parvez Tak and Hussain first went to Laila Khan's flat in Andheri in Mumbai in a sports utility vehicle, packed items of day-to-day use and went back to Igatpuri.

"In Igatpuri, they also took with them Laila's sports utility vehicle Mitsubishi Outlander. Police in Jammu recovered the abandoned Scorpio last year. The Outlander was recovered earlier this year from outside Tak's office in Kishtwar, " Roy said. 

Police also recovered two knives and a rod from the crime scene. One knife was found in the pit where the bodies were buried and the other knife and the rod were found inside the house.

"Both Parvez Tak and Hussain will be charged with murder (Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code) and causing disappearance of evidence of offence (Section 201), " Roy said.

Five units of the Crime Branch along with forensic experts and toxicology doctors from J.J. Hospital in Mumbai were part of the search operation that started Tuesday after Tak agreed to point out the crime scene.

Roy said the farmhouse was set on fire with diesel taken from generators. 

"This must have been done to destroy fingerprints, blood stains and other evidences of murder, " he said. 

Roy also said that although forensic examination reports would shed light on the identity of the six skeletons, Parvez Tak's confession matched the description of the crime scene and the events that took place when the family was murdered. 

Apart from Laila (30), her mother Selina (52), her sisters Zara (25) and Azmina (32), brother Imran (25) and cousin Reshma Khan (19) were the most likely victims.

A Mumbai metropolitan court Monday remanded Parvez Tak to police custody till July 19. 

Laila Khan, whose real name was Reshma Patel, was last seen in the 2008 film "Wafaa" with veteran actor Rajesh Khanna.

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Human remains found near Laila Khan's country villa

Human remains, including three skulls, were found near the country villa of missing Bollywood starlet Laila Khan in Maharashtra's Nashik district, police said Tuesday.

The human remains were recovered in Igatpuri town, around 130 km from Mumbai, police said.

A team of Crime Branch officers had taken Parvez Tak, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist and stepfather of the actress, to the spot where they reconstructed the crime scene following which they found the human remains of three people, an officer said.

A Mumbai metropolitan court had, on Monday, remanded Tak to police custody till July 19.

Whether the recovered human remains were that of Laila Khan and her family members will be verified after forensic examination, police said.

During interrogation, Tak reveled that Laila Khan, missing since February 2011, had been killed along with four other members of her family and their bodies had been disposed of somewhere near Mumbai.

A case of abduction was registered at Mumbai's Oshiwara police station by her father Nadir Patel. According to the complaint, Tak and his accomplice Asif Sheikh had allegedly abducted Laila Khan and her family members.

Laila Khan, whose original name is Reshma Patel, was last seen in a 2008 movie "Wafaa" with Rajesh Khanna.

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Now Parvez Tak confesses to killing Laila and family

In his tell-all to Mumbai police, prime accused Tak stated that he and his associate first killed Saleena Patel ” Laila's mother ” and then the rest of the family, over her decision to give the power of attorney of her property to her second husband 


Parvez Tak, who is accused of murdering six members of starlet Laila Khan’s family, has confessed that he and his friend killed them by pummelling them with sticks and rods, and then buried them in the vicinity of their Igatpuri farmhouse. 

Beaten to death: Laila Khan had settled on moving to the Gulf state, with her family, to solemnise her marriage with Sonu alias Vafi Khan, who is the son of close Dawood aide Kamal Jadhwani 

Mumbai police who recorded the confession while in Jammu & Kashmir, brought Tak back to the city last night, and will produce him in court today. 

Tak in his confession has given chilling details of the killings. According to the police, Tak and his friend Shakir Hussein, both residents of Nali Bhunzwah, Kishtwar District, J&K, murdered all six family members a few days before the victims had decided to leave for Dubai. 

Laila Khan had settled on moving to the Gulf state, with her family, to solemnise her marriage with Sonu alias Vafi Khan, who is the son of close Dawood aide Kamal Jadhwani.

According to Tak’s confession, Laila’s mother Saleena’s decision to make her second husband Asif Shaikh the in-charge of her property in Mumbai before they left for Dubai had made him feel insulted and angry. After hearing her choice, he got into a heated argument with Saleena, which ultimately led to the killing of Laila and five of her family members. 

According to a source, Tak — who is the third husband of Saleena — was riled at the fact that his wife gave the power of attorney to her second husband.

After confronting her at the farmhouse, he got into a verbal spat with Saleena over the issue. 

As the quarrel got heated, Tak allegedly pushed his wife due to which she sustained a grievous head injury. When family members rushed to her aid, they saw her lying in a pool of blood, and assumed that Saleena was dead.

They started wailing and in a fit of anger attacked Tak, and started beating him up. Hearing the loud noises, Tak’s friend Hussein, who was working as a watchman at the Igatpuri farmhouse, rushed to his help. Soon they joined forces, and beat all the family members to death with sticks and rods.

Sources added that after killing them, the accused carried the bodies to a vehicle, drove a few metres in the surrounding forest area, and buried them. All the corpses were dumped into a single grave, which was dug by Tak and Hussein, along with their jewellery. 

After burying them the duo drove to Jammu in the same vehicle.

Sources added that Tak was introduced to Saleena at a function in Mumbai that was organised by an NGO. They exchanged mobile numbers, and soon started keeping in touch. Saleena invited Tak to Mumbai, who wasted no time in getting here. 

After receiving Tak at the railway station, Saleena took him to her residence and after staying together for a few months, she proposed marriage, which he accepted. After the alliance, Tak began to oversee all family matters. So the decision to give importance to Asif may not have gone down well with him. 

Kishtwar cops investigated the entire case, and stated that their counterparts in Maharashtra have only to find the bodies from the spot disclosed by Tak during questioning.

A few officers from Mumbai police will now leave for Igatpuri to locate the corpses. 

Kishtwar police have already mobilised men and machinery to arrest Shakir who went underground soon after he was released from detention. 

According to J&K cops, they are confident that Shakir will soon be behind bars and will be handed over to Mumbai police They have given a clean chit to Asif and Afgan Khan, stating that the duo played no role in killing the actress and her family and that all the prior claims made by Tak were false. He only confessed to his crime three days ago.

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Missing starlet's step father brought to Mumbai

A team of Mumbai Police's Crime Branch officials late Sunday brought Parvez Tak, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist and stepfather of missing Bollywood starlet Laila Khan to Mumbai for further questioning, an official said.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police had Saturday handed him over the Mumbai Police for further questioning in the case of Khan's mysterious disappearance. Tak will be produced in a metropolitan court here Monday.

Police had on Saturday got the permission from a court in Jammu to bring Tak to Mumbai.

Tak, a native of Kishtwar town, about 230 km northeast of Jammu, was arrested June 21 after Khan's vehicle was found in the town.

During interrogation, Tak made the revelation that Khan, missing since February 2011, had been killed along with four other members of her family and their bodies had been disposed of somewhere near Mumbai.

A case of kidnapping has been registered at Mumbai's Oshiwara police station by her her father Nadir Patel. According to the complaint, Tak and his accomplice Asif Sheikh had allegedly kidnapped Khan and her family members.

Khan, whose original name is Reshma Patel, was last seen in a 2008 movie "Wafaa" with Rajesh Khanna.

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I killed Laila Khan and her family

Asif Shaikh has confessed to Mumbai cops that he, along with Parvez Tak, killed the starlet, her family and threw their bodies from the hills of Igatpuri


The Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested Asif Shaikh in an effort to solve the mystery shrouding the fate of starlet Laila Khan and her family, but it is not prepared to trust the suspect’s confession just yet and is waiting to interrogate Parvez Ahmed Tak, who is currently in custody of the Jammu & Kashmir police. 

Shaikh was detained from his residence in Juhu Galli after Tak mentioned his name during interrogation. Shaikh confessed that he and Tak shot and killed Laila and her family and threw their bodies from a cliff in Igatpuri. 

Wanting to tally the two suspects’ confessions, the crime branch visited Jammu to seek custody of Tak, but the process was postponed for a week due to improper paperwork.

The case came to the fore after Laila’s biological father Nadir Patel complained to the police about his daughter’s disappearance last year and mentioned Shaikh and Tak in his complaint. Shaikh was summoned to the Oshiwara police station and he said that he had divorced Laila’s mother five years ago and was unaware of the family’s whereabouts. Shaikh was released after his statement was recorded.

However, the crime branch Unit VIII arrested Shaikh after Tak mentioned his name during questioning by the Jammu police. 


Tak confessed that he, along with Shaikh and Sonu alias Vafi took the family to a guesthouse in Igatpuri and then to Delhi. Sonu then accompanied Laila and her family to Dubai.


Sources added that the Mumbai Crime Branch will first tally the statements of both suspects once they have Tak in custody and decide whether to launch a search operation for the bodies.

DIG Jammu, Gharib Das said, “Tak earlier told the police that they had escaped to Dubai, but now he has changed his statement. We cannot trust him and until and unless we find the bodies, we cannot say that they have been killed.” 

Not in the country?

Abrar Ahmed Choudhary, Dy SP Headquarters, Kishtwar, Jammu said that Tak revealed during interrogation that Laila had married Sonu and left the country. He added that the Mumbai police would be arriving in Kishtwar and would receive full cooperation. A person named Jadhvani arranged fake passports for five members of her family to flee the country.

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Laila Khan's father dismisses claim on her killing

Nadir Shah Patel, father of the missing Bollywood starlet Laila Khan, Thursday challenged the claim of her step-father Parvez Iqbal Tak that the actress, along with four of her family members, was killed near Mumbai in 2011. 


Speaking to a private news channel here, 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 allegedly killed and their bodies disposed of somewhere around Mumbai in February 2011.

Patel was responding to revelations Tak made before Jammu and Kashmir Police, which provided vital leads in her missing case. 

Tak, who married Saleena Begum after she divorced her husband Nadir Shah Patel, was arrested last month in Kishtwar, about 230 km from Jammu. He is suspected to be a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant. 

Patel said if what Tak claims was true, the Mumbai police should register a first information report and investigate the case. 

The Mumbai police denied any knowledge on the alleged murders, though a team was likely to leave for Jammu soon for further investigation.


Last month, a police team went to Jammu to probe the case which has strong Mumbai and Maharashtra connections. 


Patel said Tak and his partner Asif Sheikh came regularly to their Santacruz home and he always felt uneasy in their presence. 

"I always used to caution my family members to beware of them, I found their behaviour suspicious, but they did not heed to me," Patel said. 

He admitted that the Tak-Sheikh duo was planning to dupe him in some property matters as Tak was found with a fake PAN card bearing his name (Patel's) name. 


Referring to a mysterious fire a few months ago which partly damaged their bungalow in Igatpuri, a hill-station in Maharashtra's Nashik district, around 130 km from Mumbai, Patel contended that there could a link between Laila and her family's disappearance and the fire, but declined to elaborate.


Mumbai police Crime Branch Tuesday registered a kidnapping case against Tak. Patel said he was called by police for that. 

Laila, whose original name is Reshma Patel, was last seen in a Hindi movie "Wafaa" with Rajesh Khanna in 2008. 

According to sources, the Mumbai police found Laila to have questionable connections, which allegedly led to her disappearance from Mumbai in 2011. 


After tracking her mobile phone, her last call records showed her to be at her farm house in Igatpuri. 

Sources claimed that Laila was close to suspected Lashkar militant Tak through a Bangladesh-based suspected terrorist Munir Khan, whom she allegedly married.

Jammu and Kashmir's Deputy Inspector General of Police Gareeb Das said that Tak, who said sharpshooters had been hired to kill Laila and her family, had been cooperating with interrogators and gradually revealing information on the case.

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Missing Bollywood starlet Laila Khan is dead

Pakistan-born missing Bollywood actress Laila Khan, who was linked with terror outfits and ISI, was shot dead along with her family, police in Jammu and Kashmir said quoting a man close to the family who was arrested last week. 


Pervez Ahmed Tak, who is now in police custody and is said to be a family friend, said she was murdered with her family in Mumbai, reports said. 

Laila's mother Saleena Patel, sister Azmina, brother and a cousin were missing along with her from Mumbai since Feb 2011. 

Her father Nadir Patel, who was divorced from her mother who had remarried, had filed a police complaint. 

Laila Khan is a Pakistan born actress and had acted opposite Rajesh Khanna in the 2008 Bollywood movie Wafa: A Deadly Love Story. 


Laila had married Munir Khan, a member of the Bangladeshi terror outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, reports said. 


Laila's husband is close to gangster Dawood Ibrahim, according to reports. 

Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) had suspected Laila Khan of having links with the Pakistani spy agency ISI and the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Laila's SUV was allegedly used for carrying explosives that were used in a blast before the Delhi High Court in Sept last year.

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'Missing' Laila Khan is in Dubai?

According to her accomplice Parvez Tak, a Dawood Ibrahim aide arranged for her safe passage to Dubai on fake passport 


Bollywood starlet Laila Khan’s disappearance saga has taken a new twist. She is alive and has fled to Dubai on a fake passport, provided by a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, according to Parvez Ahmed Tak. 

In his confession made to Jammu and Kashmir police, Parvez has also stated that Laila is married to the son of Kamal Jadhvani, a hawala operator who handles the hawala operations of fugitive underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim. 

According to intelligence officials, Parvez has also admitted that while he was in Mumbai, Jadhvani, would act as a link between Laila and the don, and all communication messages were being routed through him. He also stated that Laila was doing things at the behest of Dawood. 


According to sources in J&K, the confession states that Laila married Sonu alias Vafi, Jadhvani’s son. “During interrogations, Parvez revealed that Laila married a person named Sonu and has left the country. Mumbai police who are investigating Laila’s case will be coming to Kishtwar and we will co-operate with them, ” said Abrar Ahmed Choudhary, Dy SP Headquarters, Kishtwar in Jammu. 


Parvez, who was arrested on Thursday by J&K police, has reportedly told cops that after Laila completed her reconnaissance, Jadhvani arranged fake passports for five members of her family to flee the country. 

Parvez’s statements have revealed that Laila had full knowledge of the Delhi blast, and hence the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad has taken copies of the fake passports. They have also launched a hunt for Jadhvani, who is hiding in the city. 

ATS will issue a red corner notice against Laila and Sonu, and may approach the Interpol.

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