Monica Bedi writes to PM 06th Nov 2004
23.09 IST
By ApunKaChoice Bureau
Small-time Bollywood actress Monica Bedi, who was last seen in Jodi No: 1 has written a pardon letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting cancellation of all criminal proceedings against her initiated by the CBI.
Monica, who is the girlfriend of underworld don Abu Salem, is facing an extradition trial from Portugal to India.
A handwritten letter of Monica, who completed on September 17 her sentence of two years in Portugal for entering that country on a forged document and continuing to use it for stay there, requesting cancellation of extradition trial against her and to give her "a second chance" was received at the Prime Minister's Office, official sources said in New Delhi.
In her letter, Monica requested that she be allowed to go to Norway where her parents had immigrated 18 years back.
She expressed apprehension that she would be tortured physically and mentally by the CBI to find her links with Abu Salem, who was introduced to her during a stage show as Arslam Ali, a businessman from Pakistan.
Monica claimed that she came to know about the actual identity of Salem only very late.
The little-known Bollywood actress said in her letter that Abu Salem had forced her to secure a forged passport and clarified that she had never used it while going out from India or in Dubai.
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Monica Bedi writes to PM
