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NRI Monica Bedi's conviction upheld, sentence reduced

 

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the conviction of Bollywood actress Monica Bedi in a passport forgery case, but reduced the sentence to the imprisonment already undergone.

Bedi was caught in Portugal for travelling on a false passport to the name of Sana Malik Kamal. She was sentenced to five years of imprisonment by the trial court in Hyderabad which was reduced to three years by Andhra Pradesh High Court.

She has already undergone two years and six months imprisonment

 

 

 

 

 

Monica Bedi, acquitted by a court here in a fake passport case



Monica Bedi, who was extradited with Salem from Portugal by CBI on 11 November, was accused of procuring a forged passport from the state capital in 2001





Abu Salem, a prime suspect in the 1993 bombings that struck Mumbai's stock exchange along with trains, hotels and gas stations, killing 257 people