Court sets Fardeen Khan free in cocaine case

Zeenews bureau Mumbai: 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. The actor 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nevertheless said that if he is arrested for a similar offence in the future then the immunity against him shall be withdrawn.