Actress Chrisann Pereira, whose name was recently cleared by a Sharjah court in the drug frame-up case, received her passport from the authorities on June 19. However, she will be able to return to India only once her name is removed from the travel blacklist. A person named in the ‘Black List of Persons Engaged in the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs’ cannot fly to any country.
Chrisann spent nearly a month in a Sharjah jail after a small quantity of drug was found concealed in a memento given to her by her ‘friend’, baker Anthony Paul, and his friend, banker Rajesh Bobhate, in an alleged set-up. She was released from Sharjah jail on April 26 after the crime branch in Bombay arrested the two accused (Paul and Bobhate) for planting drugs on her and sending her to Sharjah on the pretext of an audition for a role in a web series. Paul wanted to seek revenge on Chrisann Pereira for a fight he had had with her mother.