BREAKING NEWS: Saif Ali Khan brought to police station
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was Wednesday brought by Mumbai police to the Colaba Police station for interrogation in a case relating to an assault on an NRI businessman.
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Saif Ali Khan booked for assaulting patron in Taj hotel
2012/2/22 2:38:45 Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Mumbai police early Wednesday registered a case against Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan for allegedly assaulting a patron in the Taj Mahal Hotel in south Mumbai, police said.
"A team of officers has gone to Saif's residence for further investigations and the further course will be decided later," Assistant Commissioner of Police Iqbal Shaikh of the Colaba region, which lodged the complaint, told IANS.
The incident occurred shortly after midnight Tuesday when Saif, along with his girlfriend Kareena Kapoor and some other friends, was sitting in the Wasabi Restaurant at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
Disturbed by their ruckus, the patron, Iqbal Sharma requested them to keep their voices down.
Apparently enraged by this, Saif allegedly punched Sharma on the face, reportedly breaking his nose.
Later, Sharma went to the Colaba police station and lodged a complaint against Saif.
Saif has been booked under, among others, Section 325 of the Indian Penal Code (assault), but Shaikh declined to specify whether he would be arrested, saying: "Investigations are in progress."
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was in trouble Wednesday after a South African businessman accused him of abusing and hitting him and his father-in-law at a five-star hotel here.
Police, who failed to trace Saif at his Bandra house Wednesday afternoon, later found him at his actress-girlfriend Kareena Kapoor's residence, a police officer said.
Police said a case of assault had been registered against the Bollywood actor at the Colaba police station.
Despite speculation that Saif would be brought to the police station, nothing happened for hours. Meanwhile, army of reporters assembled outside the police station and some even parked themselves outside Saif's residence.
The victim, Iqbal Sharma, who is of Indian origin, told TimesNow television that Saif called him an "idiot" for complaining about the actor's loud conduct at a restaurant in the Taj Mahal Hotel.
Sharma said he and his family had requested the restaurant manager to ask Saif and his friends, which included Kareena, Amrita Arora and Malaika Arora Khan, to keep their voices down.
Sharma said he and his family decided to move to another part of the restaurant downstairs.
"As we were going down the stairs, Saif was coming up, probably from the toilet. As he passed me, he called me an idiot and asked 'Do you know who I am?'"
Sharma said the actor first pushed him and then assaulted his father-in-law who fell on the stairs and bruised his jaw.
"It was an uncivilized way to behave in a public space," Sharma said, adding that he intended to pursue the matter legally.
A police officer confirmed that Sharma and his guests had objected to the noise created by Saif and his friends.
The incident occurred shortly after midnight Tuesday.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Iqbal Shaikh declined to say if the actor would be arrested.
Saif has been involved in public spats earlier too, including some photojournalists in Patiala in September 2008.
The actor has won the Padma Shri award, which did not go down well with the Bishnoi community in Rajasthan as he is accused of killing a blackbuck -- an animal the Bishnois hold sacred. Saif was charged with poaching as the blackbuck is on the endangered list.
2012/2/22 7:04:00 Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, who is known as Chota Nawab in the industry was arrested by Kolaba police in Mumbai today. When he was at Taj Hotel yesterday, he quarreled with an NRI Businessman Iqbal Sharma and given him a punch on his face. Hence, the police arrests Saif upon his complaint. Police have taken Saif to Kolaba station. Unless he tenders an unconditional apology to Iqbal, the case will not be withdrawn. Once he is presented before the magistrate and the trial begins it will become more complicated for him. It is learnt that Saif's family members are negotiating with Iqbal for withdrawing the case against Saif.
Mumbai, Feb 24 (IANS) Salman Khan, who is back here after the shooting of "Ek Tha Tiger" in Cuba, Friday came out in support of his fellow actor Saif Ali Khan, saying that media should have waited for his version and dug out the facts before running what was carried on television.
"Even the press yesterday was all for the other guy. They didn't even bother to ask what happened to Saif. Did Saif got wacked first or not? We should have waited for Saif to come out and say what he had to say," Salman told reporters after he was aksed to comment on the incident.
"We are actors and we have been in the industry for the longest time. Saif has been in the industry for 18 years. We knew the guy," added the actor.
Salman is the face of the History channel and was attending the unveiling of TV 18's Big initiative.
Saif was involved in a scuffle early Wednesday at Wasabi, the Japanese restaurant at Taj Mahal Palace with South Africa-based Indian businessman Iqbal Sharma. The latter alleged that Saif abused and assaulted him and his father-in-law and filed a complained at the Colaba police station, the actor said he was provoked to do so.
Following Sharma's complain the 41-year-old actor was arrested Wednesday evening with two others -- Shakeel Ladak and Bilal Amrohi.
Police detained the trio at the Marine Drive police station and later brought them to the Colaba police station. The interrogation of the trio lasted an hour. Later, the actor and his two friends were freed on personal bonds of Rs.3,000 each.
According to Sharma, Saif called him an "idiot" for complaining about the actor's loud conduct at the restaurant. He said he and his family had requested the restaurant manager to ask Saif and his friends, which included Kareena, Amrita Arora and Malaika Arora Khan, to keep their voices down.
Salman said: "If you have gone into a restaurant, you are not there to manao matam (mourn). You are there to have dinner and drinks. My family was there, everybody was there. I am sure he (Sharma) might be right, but my point is that find out the entire thing and then come on TV."
When CNN-IBN editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai asked Salman if recently he created any historical moment by bashing up someone in a restaurant, Salman replied: "Other people are making history it seems."
The actor, who himself has been involved in hit and run case, and scuffles, says the blame always comes on actors.
Salman said: "Always the actors have been blamed, why so? It has always been us," he said.
2007/11/21 1:49:41 For once, TV 9 failed to give breaking news. The stroy has a lot of news value, The breaking news that TV9 failed break is the Arthi Agarwal marriage story.
Arthi married her lover at the Ary Samaj in Secunderabad this afternoon. The news was first broken by NTV followed by TV5 and ETV. TV 9 was the last to break the news. The new channels like NTV and TV5 are giving TV9 a run for its money.
Saif and Bebo's affair has admittedly brought out a new person in the Chote Nawab
We dont know whether Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoors love story will have a happy ending but, from what we hear, Saif has taken up drinking again though occasionally.
For all those late comers, Saif had called it quits to smoking and drinking after he was admitted to Lilavati hospital. We hope that with teetotaller Kareena for company Saif has become a safe drinker!
2011/10/7 8:11:27 The sleuths of Osmania University Police Station arrested a habitual day house breaking offender and his wife who used to assists him in disposing stolen property and seized gold jewellery worth Rs. 10 lakh from their possession.
The accused Rayala Ravi and Laxmi were residents of Arya Nagar, Lalapet. According to police, Ravi had a criminal background and have been committing offences since 1997. His wife Laxmi used to abet him to commit offences and also assisted him in disposing of the stolen property.
So far, the couple was found involved in about 28 cases of ordinary theft, House theft and House breaking by day in the limits of Osmania University, Mahankali, Musheerabad, Maredpally, Tirumalgherry, Malkajgiri, Neredmet, Kushaiguda and Chaithanyapuri police station limits. Last time he was arrested by Osmania University Police in the month of July 2010, but he was released on bail after three months.
Police have recovered stolen gold jewellery worth Rs. 10 lakh at the instance of both the accused from the Pawn brokers and also from their house. (INN)
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Amid high drama, Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was arrested Wednesday evening with two others for assaulting an NRI businessman. All three were later released on bail after being interrogated, police said.
Police detained Saif and his friends Bilal Amrohi and actress Amrita Arora’s husband Shakeel Ladak at the Marine Drive police station, and later brought them to the Colaba police station. The interrogation of the trio – about the incident early Wednesday at the Taj Mahal Hotel in which Saif is accused of assaulting South African NRI businessman Iqbal Sharma – lasted one hour.
They were formally arrested and then given bail on personal bonds of Rs.3,000 each.
According to sources, Shakeel Ladak is said to have hit Sharma’s father-in-law in the scuffle.
Shakeel and Bilal’s lawyer Mahesh Vaswani told IANS: “Iqbal and his group of people were passing comments on the girls (who were part of Saif’s group), and that started the incident.”
On his part, Saif said he had only “defended” himself after being “assaulted”.
“There was an ugly incident last night (Tuesday) where my friends and the ladies with us were abused and I was assaulted. I was hit and I defended myself,” Saif said in a statement.
“I have been to the police station to answer the requirements of law as I am a law abiding citizen. I have also filed a complaint about what happened last night and I am confident justice will be done,” he added.
A battery of top police officers were waiting for the actor at the Colaba police station, besides the media and scores of fans.
In the afternoon, police sent a team to Saif’s house and after failing to locate him there, had ordered him to appear before them as early as possible.
Saif was virtually declared ‘wanted’ when he went incommunicado after assaulting Sharma, who is also the director general and CEO of the Trade, Industry & Investments of South Africa.
The actor has been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly assaulting Sharma in the Taj Mahal Hotel around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning. Police said a case of assault had been registered at the Colaba police station.
Police are also questioning staff at the hotel and examining the CCTV footage.
Legal experts that the offences for which Saif has been booked are bailable.
Sharma told TimesNow television that Saif called him an “idiot” for complaining about the actor’s loud conduct at a restaurant in the Taj Mahal Hotel.
He said he and his family had requested the restaurant manager to ask Saif and his friends, which included Kareena, Amrita Arora and Malaika Arora Khan, to keep their voices down.
Sharma said he and his family decided to move to another part of the restaurant downstairs.
“As we were going down the stairs, Saif was coming up, probably from the toilet. As he passed me, he called me an idiot and asked ‘Do you know who I am””
Sharma said the actor first pushed him and then assaulted his father-in-law who fell on the stairs and bruised his jaw.
“It was an uncivilized way to behave in a public space,” Sharma said, adding that he intended to pursue the matter legally.
A police officer confirmed that Sharma and his guests had objected to the noise created by Saif and his friends.
The incident occurred shortly after midnight Tuesday.
Saif has been involved in public spats earlier too, including some photojournalists in Patiala in September 2008.
The actor has won the Padma Shri award, which did not go down well with the Bishnoi community in Rajasthan as he is accused of killing a blackbuck — an animal the Bishnois hold sacred. Saif was charged with poaching as the blackbuck is on the endangered list.
2011/10/26 3:37:49 An under-trial prisoner who managed to escape from the police custody after being admitted in a hospital was arrested at his home in less than four hours.
According to police, the under-trial in a murder case - Afsar Khan was shifted from Chanchalguda Jail to the Osmania General Hospital at about 10.50 pm on Tuesday night. He reportedly consumed some unknown pills in the prison and had to be shifted to the OGH. He was admitted in the MM-2 of the OGH. However, on Wednesday morning at about 10 am, he gave a slip to police constables Srinivas and Muralidhar and escaped from the hospital on the pretext of going to toilet.
Since Afsar Khan was an under-trial, he was not in prison uniform and was not even handcuffed. He comfortably walked out of the hospital without being noticed. However, the constables sounded alert after realising his escape and immediately informed the Afzalgunj police station about it.
However, the police did not have to struggle hard to trace him. After escaping from the hospital Afsar Khan directly went to his home at Falaknuma and was caught again at about 1 pm. He was brought to the Afzalgunj police station and now faces a fresh case of escaping from the police custody. (INN)
2008/4/4 5:12:30 The new 24x7 TV channels are leaving morals and ethics in their pursuit of exclusive and breaking news. The competition among these channels now is so fierce for breaking news that the channels will go to any extent to bag an exclusive footage and a bite.
Director Jaya did a good job on this issue in her latest film Sawaal. Brahmanandam plays a reporter of a popular 24x7 news channel and Kovai Sarala plays the news reader. She shots questions to reporter Brahmanandam, who is at the scene of the action.
Brahmanandam keeps on questioning a man stabbed in the chest and he does need heed his cry for help. He does not make any effort to inform the police or call for ambulance. The victim is so angry with the questions put by Brahmanadam that he pulls the knife from his chest and gets ready to stab the reporter.
In another scene, the reporter eggs on person who is threatening to drink poison and commit suicide. Far from stopping this person, the reporter actually forces the poor fellow to drink the poison. He then grabs this live footage of that man who is now dying. Finally the tables are tuned on the reporter when the police lock him up in the cell and beat him black and blue.
Kovai Sarala comes to the police station with a cameraman in tow and then starts shooting questions at Brahmanandam, asking him how it feels to be thrashed by the police etc.
The episode also makes a spoof on the greed of these channels to make a few extra bucks by asking people to send and SMS about it. One question goes like this If you think the fellow will survive the stab injuries , please type Yes and if you think he will not survive, then type No.
Let us hope the TV channels will learn a lesson from this and behave a little more responsibly in their coverage of news from now on.
2011/2/27 8:15:50 Breaking News Baburao, this is the upcoming film title of Shivaji. A leading FM Radio Station in Hyderabad has been airing a comedy program with this title. Shivaji said that, when the new director Karri Balaji told him about this title and the story line he is quiet impressed with it and okayed the film. this film will be jointly produced by Challa Reddy, Tirupati Rao and Peddi Reddla Trinath under Tejaswi Creations banner. Srilekha will score music for this film. The full details of this movie will be announced shortly.
With his first film as a producer, Love Aaj Kal, Saif Ali Khan introduced Giselli Monteiro to Bollywood. However she wasn't revealed until the movie released. Saif is all set to repeat this technique in his next venture Cocktail.
Our source said, "Cocktail is directed by Homi Adjania and apart from Deepika, there is another actress in the film.
While there were rumours that Kareena would be playing the part, the fact is that there is a new actress from London, who will be making her debut in the film. Saif wants to keep the actress under wraps until the film releases."
Confirming the news Saif said, "Yes it is true. But we are only 70% done with Cocktail and after that we have Agent Vinod. Right now, I am concentrating on Aarakshan. We will speak about it when the film is ready.
2011/12/11 14:51:22 Hyderabad, Dec 11 (INN): The South Zone team of Commissioner’s Task Force on Sunday arrested two persons against whom non-bailable warrants were issued by the courts.
The arrested accused are Syed Ansar Ali of Vattepally and Mohd. Noor Khan of Edibazar.
According to police, in the year 1991 Ansar Ali attacked one Mir Muzaffar Ali along with his associate Md Akram with a knife due to previous enmity. A case of attempt to murder was then registered against him in the Kamatipura Police Station. Later a rowdy-sheet was also opened against him and was being maintained at Chandrayangutta police station. Since he was not attending the court, a non bailable warrant was issued against him.
Similarly, Noor Khan was involved in a cheating case in the year 2003 in the Kachiguda Police Station limits. He too was not attending the court.
Both the warrantees were handed over to concerned police stations for necessary action.
Though he already doesnt have a bad physique, actor Saif Ali Khan wants to better it further.
Saif seems to be reinventing himself after his split with Rosa. The actor, back into his bachelor days, has also quit smoking after the chest pain that got him admitted to hospital for a week.
Now, Saif says he wants to concentrate on his acting career. He also wants to rediscover his onscreen image.
The actor has said in an interview that he wants to look like a sexy moviestar.
Although we believe he already does, but Saif is planning to devote more time to workout. He wants to build his body further.
However, Saif says he is not competing with any other actor in this respect. He is bodybuilding for his own sake.
Grand Party planned to celebrate success of 'Dabangg'
2010/9/20 4:25:51
Breaking News! Nobody in the industry thought that Salman and Sonakshi starrer 'Dabangg' will become such a blockbuster hit that it will break the records of box office collections. It's the time for celebration now.
Arbaaz a nd Salman Khan are now in mood to celebrate the success of their hard work, which has paid off.
Arbaaz told a news agency Yes, we're going to have a celebration very shortly. So far because of the way 'Dabangg' has gone, we haven't been able to plan out full details. But yes we will invite all our friends and colleagues. We want to share our happiness.
This is for sure that the Dabangg success party will be a grand party and whos who of film industry will be invited. The list will be long so Khans have to do lot of preparation for the party now.
According to the sources, the Bachchans, the Roshans, the Chopras, the Kapoors, Ajay Devgn and Kajol, Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Saif-Kareena, Sinhas family will definitely be invited.
Lets see if Salman Khan will invite Sharukh Khan and Vivek Oberoi to celebrate his success.
Saif Ali Khan has solemnised his affections for Kareena Kapoor in an unexpected way. He has got her name tattooed on his arm. Admitting for the first time to the permanent love mark, Saif says, Yes, Ive tattooed her name. Its on my forearm. And very visible to the world.
According to friends of both, he has never been more committed in a relationship. Marriage is definitely on the cards. A close friend explains, Theres a kind of fierce and single-minded determination in Saif to make this relationship work for keeps. And, it isnt a defiant determination to disprove the cynics who say it wont last. Saif doesnt give a damn about what people say. He has always gone by his gut feelings, regardless of others.
He adds, Earlier, after Rosa left, there were whispers of Saif being involved with various ladies. Saif doesnt like the image of the Casanova at all. He thinks hes too grown up for it. He wants stability in his life and a relationship thats for keeps. He believes he has found it in Kareena. Come what may, Saif will make this relationship work.
Earlier, when the couple was together in Bangkok shooting for Kunal Kohlis film, Saifs co-star Rani Mukerji was privy to many sessions of his outpourings on his love. Kareena and Saif then brought in the New Year in Hong Kong with Saif's two children.
Now shooting in Greece for Yash Raj Films Tashan, Saif and Kareena spend as much time together as possible, oblivious to all around, though they dont have too many scenes together in the film.
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan, who was arrested Wednesday evening after being embroiled in a scuffle with an NRI businessman and later released on bail, says his friends, including girlfriend Kareena Kapoor, were abused and he was assaulted.
“There was an ugly incident last night (Tuesday) where my friends and the ladies with us were abused and I was assaulted. I was hit and I defended myself,” Saif said in a statement.
The 41-year-old was virtually declared 'wanted' for assaulting South African NRI businessman Iqbal Sharma, who is also the director general and CEO of the Trade, Industry & Investments of South Africa.
He was charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly assaulting Sharma in the Taj Mahal Hotel around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning. Saif and two of his friends Shakeel Ladak and Bilal Amrohi, were arrested but they are now out on bail.
Saif says he has filed a complaint too.
“I have been to the police station to answer the requirements of law as I am a law abiding citizen. I have also filed a complaint about what happened last night and I am confident justice will be done,” he said.
“I have seen the interviews given on TV and they look like decent people and I cannot believe that the same people were so aggressive the night before and the lies that they are saying about me with such straight faces. I think they have the CCTV footage in the restaurant that will prove everything.
“I hope the media is able to remain impartial while the matter is being decided. I don’t think any gentleman would have behaved differently,” added Saif.
Earlier Sharma told TimesNow television that Saif called him an "idiot" for complaining about the actor's loud conduct at a restaurant in the Taj Mahal Hotel.
He said he and his family had requested the restaurant manager to ask Saif and his friends, which included Kareena, Amrita Arora and Malaika Arora Khan, to keep their voices down. But the situation turned ugly.
Happy birthday to Mass raja Ravi Teja. He turns 42 today.
While it should be a happy occasion to him, his two brothers Raghu and Bharath who caught red hand carrying drugs few months ago, annoys him as they both have to attend the Crime Police Station today for signing the attendance register to conform that they didnt left the city nor they were absconding from the police. While, they are returning from the Police Station, when media tried to ask them some questions and to capture them in their cameras, they burst with angry and abused the media persons. Indeed, brothers like them are disgraceful to a hero like Ravi Teja who had a good reputation in the industry as well as in the audiences.
It is quiet a coincident that producer C.Kalyan also visits the same police Station today to face further interrogation.
It seems now the crime police have to open a separate station in Film Nagar to process all the cases of Tollywood.
Actor Saif Ali Khan has been sporting a paunch for a while now. In fact, ever since he was beset with health problems, the actor has been carrying the paunch. It seemed to have become an intrinsic part of him, almost like his flamboyant style. But it seems that the actor is now bent on doing something about that paunch.
The actor has hit the gym with a vengeance and is working out everyday. On the days that he has a shoot, Saif ensures that he manages to squeeze in an hour at least for cardio exercises.
With his close friends, the other two Khans, Salman and Shah Rukh having hit the gym with a vengeance, it is only natural to expect that Saif will do the same. Of course, it may also have something to do with a certain Bipasha Basu.
It is believed that Saif now frequents the same gym as hers in Bandra. A while ago, they had also been spotted working out together. So we wonder if this new-found zest for exercise is only motivated by the sight of his paunch or is it something else. Whatever be the reason, Saif will soon be rid of the paunch and will be back to sporting the lean mean look.
2011/11/29 15:35:56 In separate incidents, some unidentified thieves have stolen cash and silver articles worth a few thousand rupees from the premises of two temples.
Some unknown burglars took away nearly Rs 15,000 cash by breaking open the 'hundi' of Muddugi Vishwanath Temple in the Neredmet police station limits. Another theft was reported from Saibaba Temple in Miyapur where thieves decamped with nearly 10 tolas of silver articles.
Police have registered the cases and started investigation. (INN)
Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, who is known as Chota Nawab in the industry was arrested by Kolaba police in Mumbai today. When he was at Taj Hotel yesterday, he quarreled with an NRI Businessman Iqbal Sharma and given him a punch on his face. Hence, the police arrests Saif upon his complaint. Police have taken Saif to Kolaba station. Unless he tenders an unconditional apology to Iqbal, the case will not be withdrawn. Once he is presented before the magistrate and the trial begins it will become more complicated for him. It is learnt that Saif's family members are negotiating with Iqbal for withdrawing the case against Saif.
Breaking News Baburao, this is the upcoming film title of Shivaji. A leading FM Radio Station in Hyderabad has been airing a comedy program with this title. Shivaji said that, when the new director Karri Balaji told him about this title and the story line he is quiet impressed with it and okayed the film. this film will be jointly produced by Challa Reddy, Tirupati Rao and Peddi Reddla Trinath under Tejaswi Creations banner. Srilekha will score music for this film. The full details of this movie will be announced shortly.
