New Delhi: Sadak-2 actress Chrisann Pereira, who was framed in a drugs case and lodged in Sharjah central jail, was on Wednesday released from prison by UAE authorities. She is expected to return to India in the next 48 hours. The development came a day after the Mumbai Police arrested two accused – Anthony Paul and Rajesh Bobate alias Ravi who framed her with drugs in a fit of rage.
Chrisann was jailed after she was found carrying drugs hidden in an award trophy.
Paul (35), a bakery owner of Borivali, and his associate, a banker Ravi are in police custody till May 2.
The accused, identifying himself as a talent consultant, had approached Premila Pereira in March-end, to lure Chrisann with an audition for a role in an international web series in Sharjah. He also persuaded the actress to carry the trophy in which he had hidden the drugs to be handed over to an associate in Sharjah who would give details of her hotel booking.
After reaching Sharjah, Chrisann found that nobody came to receive her at the airport, but the local police landed, detected the drugs in the trophy and hauled her to the lockup, and later the Sharjah Central Prison from April 1.
Police have found that the accused Paul had used the same modus operandi with some other wannabe actors, assuring them of plum roles in global web series, though one person declined to carry the trophy, which Chrisann later agreed to take with her, the report added.
