Starlet gets 3-year jail for plotting to kill Bhandarkar

Mumbai, April 28

Bollywood starlet Preeti Jain was today sentenced to three years in jail by a court here for plotting to murder filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar 12 years ago.

Special judge SM Bhosale  handed over the same punishment to Naresh Pardeshi and Shivram Das and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on the trio. It acquitted two other accused.

According to the prosecution, Jain had approached Pardeshi to kill Bhandarkar in 2005 and reportedly paid him Rs 75,000. Pardeshi was an aide of underworld gangster Arun Gawli. A year before that, Jain had alleged rape by the director and filed a case.

The murder plot came to light when the police received a tip-off following which Jain began asking for her money as the task was not completed.  — PTI