It is common knowledge now that while Ishrat was definitely a fidayeen, she visited Lucknow with Pillai, aka Javed four times. Pillai’s mother Shamima is a Muslim and her father was from a Hindu family in Kerala. Despite what Headley famous revealed to the FBI about Ishrat, the Gujarat police has been unable in telling the investigative agencies why Ishrat was brought to Ahmedabad for interrogation four days earlier and why was she killed in an encounter at the same crossroads where Sohrabuddin fell in an encounter? Was it merely a coincidence?