Slain BJP leader Haren Pandya's wife Jagruti Pandya today said that she recently met Asgar Ali, the man acquitted by court of killing her husband, at an Andhra jail.

"On Tuesday, I visited Visakhapatnam jail in Andhra Pradesh and met Ali, who was initially accused by CBI of my husband's murder but later acquitted by Gujarat High Court," Jagruti told reporters.

Pandya, a former minister of state for home in the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat who had later fallen out with the chief minister, was shot dead on March 26, 2003, near Law Garden area of the city during his morning walk.

"I wanted to meet him ever since he had been here at Sabarmati jail to find out the truth behind his role (in Pandya's murder)," she said. "My meeting with Ali lasted for two-and-a-half hours in which he narrated how, on the instance of CBI, he was framed in the case and how he was tortured to make a false confession," Jagruti said.