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NRI, Monica Bedi Bollywood actress charged using forged documents

Bhopal, November 20, 2005
Vinod Agarwal

NRI Monica Bedi, who was extradited with Abu Salem from Portugal by CBI on 11 November, was accused of procuring a forged passport from the state capital in 2001. Underworld don Abu Salem. was arrested on 18 September, 2002 in Lisbon for travelling on fake passports to Portugal. Monica Bedi was charged under provision of the Passport Act 1967, section 417 and 420, both relating to cheating, section 471 for knowingly using forged documents and section 468 (forgery) for the purpose of cheating.

Abu Salem, a close associate of Dawood Ibrahim, prime accused in the Mumbai serial blasts that killed about 270 people and wounded over 1,000, has been extradited to face charges in eight cases. Monica Bedi will face charges in two cases of passport forgery in Hyderabad and Bhopal.
Both are brought to Mumbai in a chartered flight; successful extradition from Portugal after a three-year legal battle

On Nov. 20, ‘‘CALL me Miss Monica,’’ said Monica Bedi to a startled court in Hyderabad on Saturday, denying any legal relationship with underworld don Abu Salem. When CBI Judge C V Subramanyam asked Monica Bedi, who was produced before the court, her husband’s name she said ‘’I am not married and still single.’’

Salem told his lawyer Ashok Sarogi that he had married Bedi in 2000 in Los Angeles. The CBI is hoping to understand Salem’s operations by grilling Bedi, as she was with him when he was on the run and might have been privy to information about his transactions.Salem, who had visited the state capital, had been instrumental in preparing the forged documents, sources said. Babu Rao, counsel for the accused said that he had urged the judge to permit him to speak with his client for five minutes. He said the judge refused to give permission to meet Ms Monica Bedi due to security reasons in the court, but directed the superintendent of jail to permit him to meet his client for five minutes.

The court has ordered that the former Bollywood actress be produced on 26 November. Monica Bedi was remanded to judicial custody till November 25 by the special court for CBI cases. The CBI had filed a memo asking the judge to permit them to have specimen signature of Ms Monica Bedi for the purpose of investigation.

 

 

NRI Punjabi Actress grilled by Abu Salem, a suspect in the 1993 bombings

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


Her father Prem Bedi, a registered medical practitioner in the village then, migrated to Norway with his family when she was only a few months old.






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 After years of legal wrangling Indian investigators got their first chance on Nov 18 to question Salem, suspected in a spate of deadly bombings and of terrorizing India's film industry Bollywood. Authorities are also hoping that Salem may provide key information on another alleged Indian who U.S. officials say has ties to Al-Qaida.


Abu Salem