Overview

• In a Hindi Rush interview, Pancholi described spending 22 days in the ‘anda cell’ at Arthur Road Jail—the same isolation unit once used for 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab.
• He recalled being deprived of basic comforts, sleeping on newspapers without a pillow and feeling treated like a terror suspect.
• A Mumbai CBI court cleared him in April 2023 of abetting the 2013 suicide of actress Jiah Khan for lack of evidence.
• Pancholi made his acting comeback on May 23 with the historical drama Kesari Veer, marking his first major role after his legal ordeal.
• Jiah Khan’s mother insists a separate murder case remains pending and vows to pursue appeals in higher courts.