Giving an open court judgement - running into the second day today - the division bench of Justice N Arumugham and Justice Ranjana Desai accepted the finding of Principal Sessions judge A S Aguiar who in his enquiry report affirmed the identity of Sayama. The division bench, while upholding this part of the Aguiar Commission report, said the sister of Sayama, Rubina, suppressed from the court the fact that he was also called Javed and that his protruding teeth gave him the nickname of `Fawda.'

The division bench were giving their judgement on a clutch of petitions filed by a group of citizens' rights activists like the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR) and the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), which claimed that all police encounters were fake. The caseof Javed Fawda alias Abu Sayama was pivotal since the sister of Fawda had claimed he was not a gangster but a peanut seller, Abu Sayama.