Three of Angelina Jolie’s bodyguards were arrested by Indian police and then freed on bail following a scuffle with parents at a Mumbai Islamic school during a movie shoot, police and lawyers have said. Jolie, accompanied by her partner Brad Pitt and their three children, is in India for a month to film scenes for "A Mighty Heart", a film about US journalist Daniel Pearl’s abduction and murder by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002. "The three bodyguards were granted bail. The case appears to be in cold storage now, unless the police decide to chargesheet them later," Mahesh Jethmalani, a lawyer who represented the bodyguards, told AFP Friday. Bail for each of the bodyguards was set at 25,000 rupees (555 dollars). The three burly bodyguards for the Hollywood star Jolie were arrested early Friday morning from the posh South Mumbai Taj Mahal Hotel, deputy police commissioner Brijesh Singh told AFP. Singh said the bodyguards were arrested on charges of "threatening" and "insult to religion" after parents filed a formal complaint with local police late Thursday. Jolie had late Thursday been stuck at the private Anjuman-i-Islam school when angry parents accused her bodyguards of shoving their children around. The private NTDV network showed footage of the skirmish, where an unidentified man said one of Jolie’s bodyguards called a man in the crowd outside the school a "bloody Indian" and made a gesture miming the slitting of a throat. "Some of the students were pushed around when they were leaving school by the bodyguards," said Mohammed Yousuf, general secretary of the parent teacher association, whose two children study at the school. Dallington TV, the production house of "A Mighty Heart", blamed paparazzi for the incident. "We had got full permission and cooperation of the school to film on the premises. Unfortunately, our arrival was impeded by the paparazzi waiting at the school gates," the production house said. "When the gates were opened to allow parents to collect their children, the paparazzi rushed the school, causing confusion," the statement said. This is at least the third time the Hollywood star and her entourage has ruffled feathers since her arrival in India last month. In October, one of the bodyguards roughed up a British photographer in the western city of Pune. The couple also upset officials in the resort city of Jodhpur after they landed a helicopter without permission
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I bet they can’t wait for this movie to end production already.
