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on 2006/9/29 8:31:59
An Indian court sentenced a former Bollywood actor to five years in jail on Friday for passport forgery and cheating in a high-profile case involving an underworld leader.
The actor, Monica Bedi, was extradited from Portugal along with Mumbai underworld figure Abu Salem in November last year.
Salem is accused of involvement in the Mumbai bomb blasts in 1993 where 257 people were killed and is currently in a high-security jail in Mumbai facing trial over the attacks.
Bedi, who is in her early 30s, faced lesser charges of fraud and criminal conspiracy and was brought to the southern city of Hyderabad where she was charged of using a fictitious name and address to get a passport.
The couple fled the country soon after the blasts, police say.
"We are disappointed. The court has taken a stern view," her lawyer, Pradeep Kumar, said adding that he would appeal for the sentence to be reduced.
Bedi, dressed in a red and green salwar kameez, left the court with a grim face under the guard of policewomen.
The court sentenced three others, including a police inspector and a postman, to five years imprisonment for helping Bedi get a passport based on false information.
Salem is believed to be a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, a Muslim underworld don accused of masterminding the Mumbai blasts 13 years ago.
source:washingtonpost
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