Saturday November 26 2005 00:00 IST, UNI
HYDERABAD: The Bhopal police on Friday took gangster Abu Salem's companion Monica Bedi's to Bhopal from the Chanchalguda jail here in connection with a another fake passport case.
Five days ago, the Chanchalguda jail authorities received a mail from Bhopal police about the production warrant they obtained from a court in Bhopal seeking the custody of Monica Bedi in connection with the case.The Bhopal police team arrived here early this morning to take her there as Moncia's judicial custody was ending on Friday.
She was taken from Chanchalguda prison in the early hours by Bhopal police, according to her counsel here.
She was brought here from Mumbai on November 11 evening by CBI officials and produced before Hyderabad CBI cases special judge C V Subramanyam at his residence on November 12 who remanded her in judicial custody till November 25.
The case was concerned the possession of a fake passport. Ms Bedi was charged under sections 417 and 420 (for cheating), section 471 (knowingly using forged documents) and sec 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating) under the passport act 1967 for possessing the fake passport.
As per the directions of the judge, Ms Monica was shifted to Chenchalguda women's prison. On the same day, CBI filed a petition seeking her custody.
On November 15, the special judge heard the arguments advanced by special public prosecutor (CBI) Ramana and Monica's counsel A M Sanugi on the petition and posted the case to November 17 for orders.
On November 17, the special judge passed an order granting two days CBI custody for Monica.
After questioning, Monica was produced before court and was later sent to Chanchalguda prison. In her statement to the court, Monica claimed that she was not married to Salem.
On November 24, Monica's uncle Purushothamlal Bedi from Hoshiyarpur district of Punjab met her with the permission of court.
During the meeting, he claimed, his niece told him that she was not married to Salem.
As Monica's custody period was coming to a close, the Bhopal police started preparing to arrest Monica in another fake passport case pending against her.
Meanwhile, the special court for CBI cases, Hyderabad on Friday extended Monica's judicial remand till December 9.
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