'woman got in salman's bldg due to absence of female cop'
Mumbai, May 24 -- Isha Chabra, a 33-year-old junior artist in Bollywood, was able to gain entry into Galaxy Apartments in Bandra, where actor Salman Khan resides, on Tuesday as there was no woman cop in the security contingent posted outside the building, sources in the police told Hindustan Times.
"It was around 3.30am when Chabra entered Galaxy Apartments, walking past the 40-member security team including Bandra police officials," said an officer from Bandra police station. "Given the time, the personnel on duty assumed that she was a resident and they did not stop or question her, also because no woman officer was around."
Chabra thereafter managed to reach the lift when another security guard intercepted her and prevented her from going to the actor's apartment. The guards also intimated the police about her trespass attempt, following which she was arrested.
"On scanning that night's CCTV footage from the building, we found the woman deliberately looking into the camera and making teasing gestures, which was odd," said the officer quoted earlier. "But we checked her phone's call detail records and confirmed that she was not affiliated to any criminal gang."
During interrogation, Chabra told the police that she had gone to Galaxy Apartments to meet Khan and ask for work. On Friday, she was produced before the court and remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.
When HT asked Dikshit Gedam, deputy commissioner of police (zone 9), if any action had been initiated against the policemen on duty outside Galaxy Apartments, he said, "No one has been suspended yet." A departmental enquiry was on to find out if there were any security lapses, he said....
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