Further, in court on 23 March 2003, as many as 37 of the 73 witnesses, including Sheikh, turned hostile. It was later alleged by their former mentors that they had received threats to their lives, including from Madhu Shrivastav, a BJP MLA who has now turned to making C grade movies of himself and his brother Pappu, a Congress councillor. Other witnesses gave garbled and self-contradictory witness account, strikingly at variance with the lucid, grammatical and logical written affidavits which had previously been filed in their name. The prosecution claimed that these witnesses had suffered head injuries and were not in a mental state to give an accurate account of their experiences, but could not explain the lucidity of the affidavits. The state government pointed to the lapses by the police in "registering and recording of FIR" (First Information Report) and on the part of the prosecution in "recording of evidence" of witnesses in the Best Bakery case. Subsequently, police and home office records revealed that during a ten-day period when Sheikh and her brother Naitullah (who later died under suspicious circumstances) was supposedly under state protection, she was kept captive by the government and Amit Shah at Silver oak guest house near Gandhinagar.