Actor freed in Sharjah may fly to Mumbai on Monday

MUMBAI: Actor Chrisann Pereira who was allegedly framed in a drugs case in Sharjah is likely to fly to Mumbai on Monday, police sources said.
Police further said the Sharjah court will hear her case on Monday and take a call on India’s request to discharge her in the alleged fake case and release her passport. Mumbai police have received a communication through an official channel which states: “Pereira’s passport confisticated and she temporarily released on bail”.
“We have been told that on Monday the court will decide on handing over Pereira’s passport. Till now, everything has gone in her favour and she was released from such serious charges of drug trafficking. We don’t expect any hurdles now,” said an officer.
If her passport is released, Pereira will fly to Mumbai late on Monday. Pereira’s parents and brother met the joint commissioner of police (crime) Lakhmi Gautam and deputy commissioner of police K K Upadhaya on Friday and thanked them for their efforts in unearthing the conspiracy of planting drugs.
The city crime branch had arrested baker Anthony Paul and his accomplice banker Rajesh Bhobhate alias Ravi earlier this week for allegedly orchestrating a fake audition for a web series in Sharjah, and sending and planting drugs on Pereira on April 1 over some grudge.
Mumbai police are now trying for the release of Clayton Rodrigues who too was arrested in February by Sharjah authorities for carrying a cake laced with a narcotic substance planted by the same accused duo.
The city crime branch on Friday recorded the statement of Rodrigue’s wife Falyn and is exploring the possibility of registering a fresh case against the arrested accused.
Police are preparing documents which will be presented before the Sharjah court when Rodrigues’s matter comes on board next week. The cake was not only laced with drugs but Sharjah officials were tipped off about a chit along with the parcel which mentioned that he was carrying 50 more kg of drugs.
Falyn has engaged the same set of lawyers that helped Pereira’s case and she is likely to fly to Sharjah to present her husband’s case.
During the course of investigation, police reportedly learnt that the duo had similarly planted drugs on Rodrigues and three other victims —Monisha Dmello, Rishikesh Pandya and Ken Rodrigues—over some grudge with them or their kin.
An official said in Sharjah a punishment for carrying drugs ranges from four years to life imprisonment.
Meanwhile, a day after Pereira was released on bail from Sharjah jail, she tweeted about the time she spent in jail. She said she washed her hair with washing powder and made coffee using toilet water. Immediately after her tweets were reported by the media, on Friday, she deleted those posts after being told by her well-wishers that she has been released on bail, her case is still pending and her passport is with the Sharjah authorities.