`Street' actor held by police

London - The Coronation Street actor Saeed Jaffrey spent a night in the cells after being arrested on a train for allegedly being…

London - The Coronation Street actor Saeed Jaffrey spent a night in the cells after being arrested on a train for allegedly being drunk and disorderly. The 70-year-old actor, who plays shopkeeper Ravi Desai, was released with a caution from Newcastle-under-Lyme police station in Staffordshire. He had been travelling on the London-Manchester train on Wednesday when he was arrested.

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