Mumbai, Sept. 14: Monica Bedi, during her 21-day appearance on the TV reality show Bigg Boss, may have gone to town claiming she never married gangster Abu Salem, but this newspaper has in its possession documents which show she not only married Salem for a mehr of $5,000, but even wrote very filmi letters to him while both were in Portuguese jails.
In fact, Bedi very clearly tells the police, according to the Portuguese police report, that they should not touch the $5,000 as the money is her "marriage money" and is dear to her. Bedi, along with Salem, was arrested in Lisbon in September 2002 for possessing fake passports and documents. Bedi, in her statement given to the Portuguese police, has said that the $5,000 found in her home by them was her husband's wedding present (mehr) when they contracted the religious marriage, as is a custom in Islam.
The Portuguese police investigation report states: "She met her husband about four years ago (in 2000) in Dubai. They took to living together, and later, in November 2000, she married him in the US, where they resided for some time." The report adds: "From the Americas they went to Dubai again, and from there to Switzerland after they received a threat from the Indian mafia." What could be damning for Bedi is the part of the report that says, "She is aware that her husband had, in time, connections to some elements of that mafia, and they had reported him to the Dubai police authorities."
While Bedi has claimed several times that she was not in touch with Salem after he was arrested in Portugal in 2002, documents clearly show this was not the case. Bedi used to meet Salem in jail every week and wrote mushy letters to him, some running into 10 pages, and some of which are in the possession of this newspaper. The letters clearly show that Bedi was married to Salem and had also converted to Islam of her own accord.
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