MUMBAI: The Agripada police have recovered three personal diaries from aspiring actress Preeti Jain which, they say, contains "vital" information about the monetary transaction between her and Gawli aide Naresh Pardeshi. The police have accused Preeti paying supari to Pardeshi to kill film-maker Madhur Bhandarkar.
On Sunday, Preeti, 30, and Pardeshi, 25, were produced before additional chief metropolitan magistrate D K Sonawane, who remanded them to police custody till September 16.
Police told the court that the diaries, recovered from Preeti's residence in Ganga Jamuna building at Versova, revealed Pardeshi's mobile number and codes which indicated that Rs 30,000 was paid to him in two instalments. Pardeshi used the money to lease a flat in central Mumbai, the police said.
Code words used in the diary 'N5' and 'N25' can be interpreted as money paid to Pardeshi for carrying out the crime, the police said.
Deposing before the magistrate, assistant commissioner (Agripada division) Manasi Mohite said the investigators wanted to conduct lie-detector and brain mapping tests on Preeti in this connection. The police also plans to carry out similar tests on Pardeshi.
The police told the court that they had records to prove that Preeti had spoken to Pardeshi 22 times over the phone. The actress denied this, stating that she had telephoned Pardeshi only on three occasions. During a search of her flat, the police also recovered 14 CDs, two floppy disks and a burkha.
The remand application mentioned that Preeti met Pardeshi on
Pardeshi's advocate Osman Chishty argued that his client was never a shaka pramukh of the Akhil Bharatiya Sena as alleged by the police.
The remand application stated: "Pardeshi was the pramukh of the Worli shakha of ABS till September 3. Subsequently, he sat at the reception counter of Dagdi chawl in Byculla." The police are now investigating whether other Gawli aides are involved in the conspiracy.
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