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Monica Bedi breaks down

Staff Reporter

Reportedly told her uncle that she's not married to Salem

Monica Bedi

HYDERABAD : Bollywood actress and underworld don Abu Salem's companion Monica Bedi on Thursday told her uncle Purushotham Lal that she never married Salem.

Speaking to the media after meeting her inside the Chanchalguda jail, Mr. Lal said she condemned reports of her marriage with Salem. Asked if he found out how she fell into Salem's company, Mr. Lal replied he did not raise the point.

"She broke down while talking to me," he said. Mr. Lal told reporters that Ms. Bedi was looking forward to meeting her family members.

A native of Punjab's Hoshiarpur district Mr. Lal arrived here on Wednesday and filed a petition in the CBI special court seeking permission to meet Ms. Bedi.He submitted an identity card issued by his village panchayat substantiating his identity. "Only after she gave her consent, we allowed Lal to speak to her for about 10 minutes," jail officials said.

A police team from Bhopal has arrived in the city. They would approach the CBI officials to take Ms. Bedi to Bhopal in connection with a case pending against her.

Salem in police custody

Mumbai Special Correspondent writes:

The Mumbai Police on Thursday got the custody of Salem till December 2, from the Sessions Court here to interrogate him in the case of murder of realtor Pradeep Jain.

Abu Salem, extradited from Portugal because of his involvement in the Mumbai serial bomb blasts of 1993, was remanded to judicial custody till December 7 on Wednesday after the CBI told the TADA court that it did not need him for the time being.

But the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Mumbai Police had got a production warrant from the Sessions Court, the trial court of the Jain murder case, and urged the TADA court to release Salem from its custody so that he could be produced before the trial court.

Condition set

TADA court Judge P.D. Kode allowed the police to take Salem but on condition that he would take steps for his judicial custody after the expiry of its own custody granted by the trial court. Mumbai Police Prosecutor Rohini Salian assured the TADA court he would be produced before it whenever required in the 1993 blasts case.

Abu Salem was then taken to the Sessions Court before Judge P.V. Bavkar, who remanded him to the police custody.

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