Shah Rukh Khan
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, team stopped at Mumbai airport over luxury watches
Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and five members of his team were stopped by the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the customs department at a private terminal in Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Saturday after an Apple iWatch and six other high-end cases of watches were found from possession, media reports said.
The authorities revealed that the total value of the goods was Rs 17.86 lakh and the actor, along with his team members, were allowed to leave after they paid Rs 6.88 lakh in customs duty, which is 38.5 per cent of the value of the goods, reports The Indian Express.
Sources told the newspaper that Khan and his team members landed from Sharjah at the general aviation terminal of the international airport.
“There is no red channel or green channel at the terminal meant for private planes. Every luggage undergoes screening at the general aviation (terminal),” an official told The Indian Express.
“There were no watches inside those cases. Out of the six cases, four were single watch cases while two were multiple watch cases,” said an official, adding, “In the luggage, we also found an Apple iWatch worth Rs 74,900. These were dutiable goods, so we asked them to pay 38.5 percent of the total value of these goods.”
Shah Rukh Khan recently turned 57.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.
