Zaheera Sheikh), aka Zahira Sheikh, is the key witness in India's Best Bakery case. She is the daughter of the owner of the bakery involved in the Best Bakery case. On March 1, 2002, 12 Muslims and 2 others were burnt alive in the premises of the bakery, allegedly by "Hindus". She has indicated her desire to contest elections for the Gujarat elections if she was fielded by a political party. In January 2005, the Supreme Court of India ordered an inquiry into the repeated change of statement by Zaheera. In August 2005, a Supreme Court committee indicted Sheikh as a "self-condemned liar" falling to "inducements" by "certain persons" to give "inconsistent" statements during the trial of the case. The sis-in-law of Zaheera claimed that Zaheera was lying.