Why Actor Saif Ali Khan Could Lose Padma Shri Award
Actor Saif Ali Khan should be stripped of the Padma Award given to him in 2010, says a petition which is reportedly being examined by the union government. SC Agrawal, an activist, filed a complaint with the Union Home Ministry in March, saying that Mr Khan, 43, should not be allowed to retain the award- conferred by President Pratibha Patil on him 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. (Read more)
