Bhopal Police fail to get custody of Monica Bedi

Indo-Asian News Service

Bhopal, November 21, 2005

The Bhopal Police have failed to get custody of Monica Bedi, companion of mobster Abu Salem, in connection with a case of fake passport she allegedly used to flee the country.

A court in Hyderabad, where Bedi is in judicial custody, turned down their request after her lawyer contended that she had been extradited from Lisbon in connection with the Mumbai blasts and not for acquiring fake passport, a senior police official said.

A team of Bhopal Police returned to Bhopal on Monday from Hyderabad without her.

Monica, was extradited to India earlier in November along with Salem, who is wanted by the Indian police in over 50 cases including the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai.

The Bhopal police had registered a case against Monica in 2001 for acquiring fake passport in the name of Fauzia Rehman.

Since then, courts in Bhopal have issued several arrest warrants against her.

A court had asked Bhopal police to produce Monica on November 19, failing which it issued a fresh warrant.

Armed with the warrant, two Bhopal police officials had approached a court in Hyderabad for her custody.

"When we produced the arrest and production warrant in the court in Hyderabad, Monica's lawyer contended that she had been extradited to India for the Mumbai bomb blasts and not for acquiring fake passports. The court agreed and turned down our plea," the official said.

However, he said police would again try for her custody.

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