May 17, 2003: Zaheera Sheikh first turned hostile in the "fast-track"court in Vadodara. She deposed that she hadn’t seen anything or known anything aboutwhat came to be known as the Best Bakery carnage in which 14 people had beenburnt alive because she was hiding in fear. She did not know anything about themob, she had claimed, or who may have been responsible. She was the key witness, as her sworn statementhad led to the arrest of 21 accused from the Hanuman Tekri area in the firstplace.