The profile of Bollywood stars have either been arrested

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We profile a handful of tinsel stars who have either been arrested or have a FIR issued against them.

Salman Khan

He is a man who has not just many ’faces’, but also aces rolled into one. For some he is a saviour and wise, but then, there are others too who think otherwise.

Even though Salman’s personal life has made equal news as much as his professional life, the irony about this man is that, despite being one of the biggest and powerful superstars in the country, he also happens to be the main accused in a hit-and-run case.

It is for this very reason, that he is facing the charges for killing one person and injuring four. If that wasn’t enough, then, he was also the man most ’Wanted’ for the infamous hunting of a protected gazelle in 1998.

Shilpa Shetty

Call it as a mere coincidence or mere incidents, that anything she does gets translated into national headlines. We are indeed talking about the super hot Shilpa Shetty, whose stocks zoomed faster than the speed of all the F1s put together.

All this happened (read ’was possible’) only after the super-success of the British reality show ’Big Brother’. It was this show (and courtesy the late jade Goody), that got Shilpa Shetty transformed from being a Bollywood actress to her present day status of ’Brand Shilpa Shetty’.

While all of this is enough to bring a smile on anybody’s face, an unintentional ’cheeky’ incident a few years ago saw her at the ’receiving end’ by none other than Richard Gere himself!

This happened when the pair had made an appearance at a press conference as part of an AIDS awareness campaign, which was aimed at preaching safe sex to the truck drivers in India.

Sad as it may sound, but the stark fact remains that even today, many of the religious fundamentalists and Hindu nationalists consider any display of public affection as a taboo. No wonder then, Gere’s PDA towards Shilpa immediately came under the scanner of all the self-appointed ’moral police’.

All of this got resulted in Miss Shetty’s name being taken not just at a number of protests, but also on the FIR copies.

Now that the dust has settled down, Shilpa Shetty can be seen cheering her team ’Rajasthan Royals’ at the ongoing IPL matches. On a lighter note, one wonders, after this incident, will Shilpa and Richard ever buy the saying ’Kiss and make up is the way to go’... What say, Miss Shetty!

Sanjay Dutt

He is a man who truly is a living example of the saying ’Looks can be deceptive’. While for any layman, this man will come across as solid as a rock (courtesy, his bulging biceps and triceps), people close to him claim that he is basically a child at heart, who has only lost his way in this big bad world.

It was only a few years back when Sanjay Dutt (who now popularly gets referred to as the very affable ’Munnabhai’) passed through a phase that saw the vanishing of the child-like smile from his face.

While those who thought that the star had ended all his ordeals by winning (read ’overcoming’) his battle against drug- addiction, little did they know that the worst was yet to come.

Sanju baba got arrested for the illegal possession of the much dreaded AK-47 rifle that had come in the consignment meant for the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, which had then got the entire nation to a standstill. It was for this reason that Sanju spent more than 18 months in jail.

Today, even though he has bounced back to normalcy, his past is something that still continues to haunt him at every nook and corner of his life.

To cite an example, when Sanjay had recently visited Lucknow to campaign for Samajwadi Party (that he was representing), there were posters and hoardings that read ’Lucknow is our heaven, we do not want AK forty seven’.

Saif Ali Khan

He is one ’Royal’ man who started his career as an Aashiq Aawara, and later on went onto become one of the most looked upon and sought-after style-icons that the country has ever produced.

Even though he initially made news for the wrong reasons pertaining to his troubled marriage with Amrita Singh, Saif is now a happy man these days with the love of his life Kareena Kapoor by his side!

But the scene and the situation was just not the same a few years ago, when Saif made headlines after his car hit a 13-year-old boy who suffered minor injuries.

Unlike many heartless beings who leave the victim and run away, Saif immediately rushed the teenager straight to hospital and also paid for his treatment. Saif later got released on bail after being charged for causing injury by negligent driving.

Fardeen Khan

This man, if not a hero, would have surely been a Supermodel of the highest order. But since he got acting as an inheritance, films were a natural choice for him. We are indeed talking about the suave dude Fardeen Khan.

Even though many of Fardeen’s films didn’t shine as expected at the Box-Office, his performances were always appreciated. But what was not appreciated was his ’coke’ act a few years ago.

Reports have it that he was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau in Mumbai for the illegal possession of drugs. There were also further rumors that he was caught with a drug peddler in Bandra and that cocaine was recovered from his car.

Even though Fardeen has come out completely of the coke case’s shadow, a mere mention of this incident is bound to take the daylights out of his fans.

Hemant Birje

Even though he has had his share of the limelight as a lead hero, he was (and still remains to be) eternally popular as the ’Tarzan’. Needless to say, that it was this role that facilitated Hemant to become the ’swinging’ sensation of the eighties.

But, just a few years back, this man was arrested by the Mumbai Police for allegedly molesting a girl at Oshiwara in suburban Andheri. Reports have it that the complainant (a girl) was sitting inside her car parked at Oshiwara one evening, when Birje was allegedly supposed to have made a pass at her, and later molested her.

Currently, Hemant Birje is all set to act and direct a sequel to Tarzan titled Return Of Tarzan.

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