| Police on Wednesday filed chargesheet against Surendra Shetty and Sunanda Shetty, parents of actress Shilpa Shetty, and three others in an alleged extortion case, paving way for the commencement of trial in a local court.
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| All the five accused are charged with allegedly hiring goons to recover Rs two crore dues of the actress from saree manufacturer Pankaj Agarwal.
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| The chargesheet was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate R P Mehta.
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| Besides Surendra and Sunanda, the other accused charged with aiding and abetting the crime are former driver of Shetty family, Dilip Palsekar, hotelier K Padmanabhan and Dinesh Rai.
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| The chargesheet also names 24 witnesses including BJP strongman from Bhavnagar Purushottam Solanki and his brother Hirabhai Solanki.
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| According to police, Shilpa’s parents had allegedly hired gangsters owing allegiance to Malaysia-based Fazal-ur-Rehman to recover the money due to the actress from Agarwal for working in an ad film in 1998.
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| Police claimed to have in their possession the tape recorded telephonic talks between Shilpa’s parents and Agarwal which reveal that he was threatened.
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| Police have also obtained sample of voices of the accused to match them with the ones figuring in the alleged conversations. The samples have been sent to the Central Forensic Laboratory for verification.
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| Both Sunanda and Surendra have been granted conditional bail in the case.
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| The Umra Police had registered a case against them for allegedly hiring gangsters to extort money from Agrawal. |
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