Mumbai: Reacting to controversy surrounding her husband Saif Ali Khan over his Padma Shri honour, Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor Khan said the government has clarified the award will not be taken back from Khan.
“The government has already issued a letter, and they have written that they are not taking the Padma Shri back, because it was given to him three-four years ago. It (letter) is out and I think the media should have received the letter by now… though the verdict of this case is not yet out,” she said.
An activist SC Agrawal has filed a complaint with the Union Home Ministry in March, saying that Khan should not be allowed to retain the award – conferred by President Pratibha Patil on him in 2010 for his contribution as an artist – because a Mumbai court has charged him with assaulting an Indian businessman from South Africa at the five-star Taj Hotel in Colaba, Mumbai in 2012.
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