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MUMBAI, JUNE 5: A special court on Monday rejected the plea of actor Fardeen Khan to amend the chargesheet filed against him in a cocaine seizure case.
Fardeen has said that he was buying only 1 gramme of coke, while the cops are saying it was more like 9 grammes.
What's the diff?
1 gramme will entail just 6 months prison sentence and that too can be evaded by a slick lawyer.
But anything exceeding above 1 gramme can raise the stakes manifold. 2 gm or more is equal to 10 yrs jail!
The actor moved the court saying that he was negotiating purchase of one gramme of cocaine from a drug peddler when the Narcotics Control Bureau arrested him in May 2001.
Police claimed that they had arrested the actor when he was purchasing cocaine from a peddler, Nasir Abdul Karim Khan. A total of nine grams of the narcotic was seized from them, according to chargesheet.
Fardeen's lawyer Aiyaz Khan pleaded that amending the chargesheet would help the actor's case because punishment varies according to the quantum of drug found on accused.
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