Eyewitness

Police refuse to believe accounts of ‘key witness’

Jan 17th, 2009 | By Editor | Category: Eyewitness

Mumbai: Anita Uddaiya, 47, has been throwing the Mumbai Crime Branch into a tizzy since a popular city tabloid reported her missing four days ago. Uddaiya is a resident of Machchimar Nagar in Cuffe Parade, a fishing colony along the coast where the Mumbai attackers docked on November 26. She has claimed to have seen […]



Any other day, the Hararwalas may have lived

Jan 2nd, 2009 | By Editor | Category: Eyewitness

Lyla Bavadam
MUMBAI: Through the day on November 26 last, Salim Ali Hussein Hararwala and his wife Mehjabeen did things that they did not normally do.
For one, both spoke to people they hadn’t seen or heard in a long while. Mr. Hararwala called old business associates out of the blue. Mrs. Hararwala called friends and relatives […]



Photographer who caught the terrorists on camera

Dec 28th, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Eyewitness

Meena Menon
MUMBAI: For ace photographer Sebastian D’Souza, the true import of what he had done the night of November 26 came three days later. “Only then I came to know I had the world’s first picture of a terrorist taken in action,” he says rather modestly.
For 56-year-old “Saby” as he is known, a photo editor […]



A terrorist’s bullet, not cancer, killed him

Dec 27th, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Eyewitness

Meena Menon
WARDHA: In the end it was not cancer which killed Sheikh Ayub Sheikh Yakub but a terrorist’s bullet to his head. His wife Razia and 12-year-old son Arif had accompanied him to Mumbai for a routine check-up at the Tata Memorial Hospital on November 24.
Forty-one- year old Razia and her family were waiting like […]



India hands over Ajmal’s letter

Dec 23rd, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Aftermath, Eyewitness

 Vinay Kumar
NEW DELHI: India on Monday handed over to Pakistan a three-page letter written by the lone surviving Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman involved in the attacks in Mumbai on November 26.
Official sources said acting High Commissioner of Pakistan Afrasiab was called to the External Affairs Ministry and handed over the letter written by […]



A shortlived ‘Bombay dream’

Dec 22nd, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Eyewitness

Mumbai: Rajendra Sharma was around 28 years old when he was killed in the terror attack in Mumbai. Usman, his employer, recalls how Sharma came to Mumbai.
“The boy is from my village in Khajripura in Uttar Pradesh. Whenever I used to go home he would beg me to get him a job in my electrical […]



I’ve been shot by terrorists … please send help: last call from constable

Dec 22nd, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Eyewitness, Featured Articles

MUMBAI: Just after he was shot and injured by terrorists, Vijay Madhukar Khandekar, constable attached to the Azad Maidan police station here, made two phone calls to his friends. “I have been shot by terrorists who are in Cama Hospital. Please ask them to send help here,” he said in the first call made on […]



A Home Guard who did his family proud

Dec 20th, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Eyewitness

 Rahi Gaikwad
Mumbai: Mukesh Bhikaji Jadhav’s young face looks out of his garlanded photograph hung on the wall of a small room in Sion Koliwada. The 23-year-old Home Guard’s life was cut short by the terror attack at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) on November 26.

BRAVEHEART: Mukesh Jadhav’s mother (right) and sister-in-law display his photo and […]



‘I do not know when he died’

Dec 17th, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Eyewitness

RAJKUMAR GUPTA was a familiar face on Platform 7 at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus – he had been selling bhel there for the past 10 years. On November 26 night, he fell victim to the two men who went berserk with their guns at the CST – two bullets struck him, on his stomach and […]



Men of the hour

Dec 17th, 2008 | By Editor | Category: Eyewitness

ANUPAMA KATAKAM
“Before the Navy commandos, the NSG and the Army came in, it was we who entered the Taj and Oberoi hotels,” said a police sub-inspector who was stationed at the Oberoi hotel for three days during the siege. “We held off the terrorists for at least five hours before the other security forces came […]