Missing 26/11 witness returns home

Mumbai, Jan 14 (PTI) A witness to the landing of
terrorists involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, who was
missing since Sunday, returned to her home in the metropolis
in the wee hours Wednesday.

Additional Commissioner of Police K Venkatesam said
the witness Anita Uddaiya, a resident of Fishermen's Colony in
Cuffe Parade, in India's western part Mumbai has come back to
her house.

Uddaiya returned home at around 1.30 am, police said,
adding she was later taken to the local police station to
record her statement.

Police, however, said they were still not aware where she
had been since Sunday. She would be again called to the police
station later in the day, they added.

Uddaiya had seen the terrorists land in a rubber
dinghy on the beach at the colony. She had asked the
terrorists where they had come from but was told to mind her
own business.

After the attacks, Uddaiya had been taken to the
state-run J J Hospital to identify the bodies of the nine
killed terrorists, police had said.

Uddaiya, who deals in scrap, had been living with her
family in the colony. The woman's absence was noticed by her
niece, who searched for her and also informed her daughter who
stays in neighbouring Thane. Later a missing complaint was
filed with the police. PTI VM
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