BOLLYWOOD APPLAUDS COURT SENTENCE FOR BHARAT SHAH
The Asian Age (Oct 2003)
By Skimmy Gupta
The film fraternity applauded the Mumbai court sentence of pardoning film financier and diamond merchant Bharat Shah with a minimum of one year of prison for his alleged links with the underworld. As Shah has already spent 14 months in jail, he will not serve the one-year imprisonment .
Shah arrested on January 8, 2001 under MCOCA was charged with threatening actors to work in his film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke with the help of gangster Chhota Shakeel.He was also charged with passing money to Mumbai's underworld dons via the hawala route. Almost after two and half years of prosecution; defence lawyers argued about no conclusive evidence to prove Shah’s voice in 30 audiotapes containing Shah's alleged phone conversations with Shakeel. Finally, Bharat Shah is man free from accusations of underworld nexus and other charges against him.
Bollywood film industry feels Bharat Shah is a genuine nice man to be forced into such serious allegations of nexus with underworld elements. They applauded the court verdict of letting Bharat Shah of all criminal charges and finally dawning justice for the film financer.
Bollywood actor Amrish Puri stated, “Finally, justice is granted to Bharat Shah. What went wrong and where nobody can foresee? I can just say whatever he went through was his destiny and karmas. He had to go through all this pain to finally emerge as a winner”
Hansal Mehta, film director felt, “This had to happen sooner or later because we are living in a free country. But you cannot convict anybody forcingly and branding him with underworld association. It is wrong to victimize somebody without proper investigations. Lot of money, time and harassment has gone into this and pain Bharat Shah’s family event through cannot be understood by anyone. We had anticipated a decision in his favour.”
Actor Prem Chopra said, “Its good news that Bharat is free from all accusations of his underworld links. He is a genuinely nice man and it’s heartening to see law has taken its course of time to dawn its decision of proving him non-guilty. No doubt, his case will act as an eye opener for Bollywood fraternity not to be associated with underworld elements directly or indirectly.”
Film Actress Rajeshwari Sachdev commented, "The court has acquitted him and court decision is respected .But on other hand,police is not at all to be blamed for their incomplete investigations.As police did what was right at that given point of time within the framework of law and order."
Aditya Pancholi, actor said, “Bharat Shah deserved to be free. And we feel happy for him and his family. But on the contrary he should not have been convicted so badly without detailed verifications. We wish him all the best.”
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By Skimmy Gupta
The film fraternity applauded the Mumbai court sentence of pardoning film financier and diamond merchant Bharat Shah with a minimum of one year of prison for his alleged links with the underworld. As Shah has already spent 14 months in jail, he will not serve the one-year imprisonment .
Shah arrested on January 8, 2001 under MCOCA was charged with threatening actors to work in his film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke with the help of gangster Chhota Shakeel.He was also charged with passing money to Mumbai's underworld dons via the hawala route. Almost after two and half years of prosecution; defence lawyers argued about no conclusive evidence to prove Shah’s voice in 30 audiotapes containing Shah's alleged phone conversations with Shakeel. Finally, Bharat Shah is man free from accusations of underworld nexus and other charges against him.
Bollywood film industry feels Bharat Shah is a genuine nice man to be forced into such serious allegations of nexus with underworld elements. They applauded the court verdict of letting Bharat Shah of all criminal charges and finally dawning justice for the film financer.
Bollywood actor Amrish Puri stated, “Finally, justice is granted to Bharat Shah. What went wrong and where nobody can foresee? I can just say whatever he went through was his destiny and karmas. He had to go through all this pain to finally emerge as a winner”
Hansal Mehta, film director felt, “This had to happen sooner or later because we are living in a free country. But you cannot convict anybody forcingly and branding him with underworld association. It is wrong to victimize somebody without proper investigations. Lot of money, time and harassment has gone into this and pain Bharat Shah’s family event through cannot be understood by anyone. We had anticipated a decision in his favour.”
Actor Prem Chopra said, “Its good news that Bharat is free from all accusations of his underworld links. He is a genuinely nice man and it’s heartening to see law has taken its course of time to dawn its decision of proving him non-guilty. No doubt, his case will act as an eye opener for Bollywood fraternity not to be associated with underworld elements directly or indirectly.”
Film Actress Rajeshwari Sachdev commented, "The court has acquitted him and court decision is respected .But on other hand,police is not at all to be blamed for their incomplete investigations.As police did what was right at that given point of time within the framework of law and order."
Aditya Pancholi, actor said, “Bharat Shah deserved to be free. And we feel happy for him and his family. But on the contrary he should not have been convicted so badly without detailed verifications. We wish him all the best.”
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posted by Skimmy @ June 20, 2008
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