Four months after she was framed in faux drug case and arrested in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on April 1, actor Chrisann Pereira returned to Mumbai on Thursday.
The Mumbai crime department has arrested baker Anthony Paul and his affiliate Rajesh Babhote alias Ravi for allegedly sending Pereira to Sharjah, UAE carrying medicine in a trophy. The actor was arrested for drug smuggling and was launched by UAE authority on April 26.
Chrisann was despatched to Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), beneath the guise of an audition. A bit earlier than she boarded the flight, she was given a trophy full of medicine by Ravi – the identical trophy that one in all Paul’s different victims, Rishikesh Pandya, had refused to hold. She was informed that the trophy was a part of the audition prop. But when she landed at Sharjah on April 1 she was arrested by the authorities and later taken to Sharjah central jail.
Chrisann’s brother Kevin shared a video of them assembly and hugging on the airport. “Chrisann is finally back & reunited with us. I know I had announced in June that she would be back but it took slightly longer and she’s finally back,” he wrote.
Paul with the assistance of Bobhate tried to border 5 individuals from whom Paul wished to take revenge from them. During investigation police discovered that Paul not simply framed the Sadak 2 actor but in addition 4 others as a part of an extortion racket.
Police stated that Paul, a baker by career, ran up a heavy debt and got here up with this convoluted ploy of extracting cash from households after organising his unsuspecting victims as drug mules and getting them arrested at Sharjah airport the place he would name and provides the authorities a tip off about sure incoming passengers carrying medicine.
Paul and his affiliate Rajesh Bobhate each are in judicial custody.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com