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The Bombay High Court Friday permitted tollywood and Bollywood actress Monica Bedi to access her two savings accounts, frozen since 2002 when she was arrest along with mafia don Abu Salem in Lisbon Sep 2002 and deported from Portugal in Nov 2005. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had frozen the two accounts - at HDFC Bank’s Versova branch, at Andheri - on the grounds as they wanted to investigate whether or not they contained the ill-gotten wealth of her alleged boyfriend, Abu Salem. Bedi and Salem were arrested in Lisbon Sep 2002 for entering Portugal using forged documents. After a nearly four-year long legal battle, the duo was deported to India by Portugal Nov 11, 2005 after India assured that Salem would not get the death penalty. In 2006, a CBI court in Hyderabad convicted Bedi in a passport forgery case. However, she was acquitted by a Bhopal court on similar charges in July 2007 due to lack of evidence. She was released from jail in Hyderabad July 2007 and later attempted to re-start her Bollywood career.
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Heroine Bank Accounts activated 
