'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' crosses the 300-crore mark at the
box office, becomes the second highest grosser after PK.
The cross-border drama, directed by Kabir Khan, reached the Rs. 300 mark in just 20 days of its release on July 17.
An elated Kabir took it to Twitter thrilled about the box-office mark the film made, a statement from Eros International reads.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan centres around a man's journey to help a Pakistani mute girl to reach her native country. Unlike Salman's previous outings which focused on his action star persona, the film brought out the emotional and innocent sides of the superstar.
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh on the other hand wrote that Bajrangi Bhaijaan is the second highest grosser in Hindi films.
Salem, Riyaz Siddiqui, Karimullah Khan, Feroze Abdul Rashid, Tahir Merchant and Mustafa Dossa are facing trial now as they were arrested in the case later. The court had in 2006 convicted 100 accused, including Yakub Memon who was hanged last month.
"It is also false that two or three days later he, along with other accused, (again) went to Dutt's house and brought (back) a bag containing two rifles, bullets and grenades," the statement said.
Salem also contended in the statement that his trial, after the termination of extradition order by Portuguese court, is "illegal, unwarranted and bad in law."
In January 2012, Portugal's Supreme Court upheld an order which cancelled Salem's extradition from that country because Indian authorities slapped some charges attracting death penalty on him, violating the terms of extradition.
Extradition was based on false information and documents given to the government of Portugal, he added.
Further, CBI did not place all the relevant documents before the TADA court regarding the extradition and hence the court was misled into framing additional charges, it said.
The trial "on the basis of police custody, forced confession and new fabricated material" is illegal, it said.
The statement claimed that Salem did not know any of the co-accused of the blasts conspiracy.
Salem has also given names of three witnesses whom he wants to examine: former CBI officer OP Chatwal and two officials from the Ministry of External Affairs.
Meanwhile, the first defence witness, called by co-accused Feroze Abdul Rashid, on Tuesday deposed and said he did not identify Feroze; the man in the dock was not the same person as his classmate Feroze.
During the cross-examination, when the prosecutor asked about the witness' company defrauding some persons to the tune of Rs 26 crore, he asked for water and requested that the deposition may be continued some other day. It was then adjourned.
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Last year the Ramadan transmissions were in full swing. Be it Amir Liaquat Hussain on Express, Waseem Badami & Junaid Jamshed on ARY digital, Ahsan Khan on Hum TV, and many others, no one left any stone unturned in celebrating this Holy month. All transmissions had their highs, lows and plateaus and had their own share of limelight.
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