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Indian Bollywood Fardeen Khan with wife Natasha arrive for the birthday party of Indian businessman Dheeraj Wadhawan in Mumbai. (AFP)
Actor Fardeen Khan will not be tried in the much published cocaine case anymore.
The actor heaved a sigh of relief when charges framed against him were dropped by the Mumbai sessions court, acquitting him from a jail term.
Fardeen was booked in the case of cocaine seizure in 2001 for buying 1 gm of cocaine from a drug dealer in Mumbai.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had arrested Fardeen in Juhu in northwest Mumbai on May 5, 2001 on charges of possessing cocaine.
But after a long court battle Fardeen has now been granted immunity from prosecution in the case on the condition that he will undergo a detoxification process, apparently, which he has already completed.
The court nevertheless said that if he is arrested for a similar offence in the future then the immunity against him shall be withdrawn.
Charged under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, Fardeen claimed he had tried to buy only one gram of cocaine as against the NCB claim that nine grams of the drug were found on him and Shaikh, reports NDTV.
Fardeen, the actor-son of the late Feroz Khan, took to acting in 1998 and has starred in over 20 films including 'Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya' and 'No Entry'.
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