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on 2007/8/29 23:57:31
Facing attack from the Congress which has accused the Central Jail authorities here of clicking 'objectionable photographs' of former Bollywood actress Monica Bedi during her imprisonment, the Madhya Pradesh government has ordered a fresh probe into the alleged incident.
Refuting the allegations, Jail Minister A S Arya described the Opposition party's attack as "misleading and a move to derive political mileage, and malign the image and honour of a woman in the process."
"An earlier probe, initiated after complaints in this regard by Monica's counsel, had confirmed that the allegations were untrue," he said. However, a fresh probe has been ordered after Congress made the allegations, the Minister said.
Addressing a press conference a week ago, State Congress General Secretary Manak Agrawal had alleged that objectionable photographs of Bedi were clicked through secret cameras installed in bathrooms in the jail, where she was lodged while being tried in a fake passport case here.
"The photographs were used to prepare indecent MMS of Bedi and circulated," he had alleged, making public some MMS before mediapersons which he claimed to have acquired from a jail official.
The cameras were removed after her counsel, P C Vedi, had raised the issue, Agrawal claimed.
Demanding a probe into the matter and promising to make available all available proofs to support it, he had demanded Arya's resignation and action against erring officers.
