Shah Rukh Khan: A senior custom official has refuted reports that actor Shah Rukh Khan was stopped at Mumbai airport on November 12 and was asked to pay Rs 6.83 lakhs as penalty for luxury watches worth Rs 18 lakh that he carried. The officer who requested to be anonymous said, “Shah Rukh Khan and his team were asked to pay duty for goods they were carrying. There was no penalty or interception as is being reported by the media. Everything being said on social media with regards to this case is a factual mismatch.”
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GA terminal
Shah Rukh Khan was travelling along with his manager Pooja Dadlani and team from the private terminal at GA terminal. The officer said, “Whenever there is a case of payment of duties or any other fees the passengers from GA Terminal are escorted to T2, because that is where the personnel and facilities are located for such scenarios. These facilities have not been extended to the GA terminal because it doesn’t make sense to do that for 10-12 people who travel from there.”
Sharing details of the incident, the officer said, “SRK and his team arrived at the GA terminal at around 12.30 pm. Unlike the T2, where there are different colour-coded channels for different types of passengers and their duty related screenings, the GA terminal has no separate classifications. So the entire team was carrying 6-7 bags which were screened by security and they had several watch winders (specialised cases used for luxury watches) and one Apple watch, which they didn’t have receipts for, as they declared these were gifts. We searched for the value of these items on the internet and we determined everything put together was worth Rs 17.86 lakhs.”
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Duty payment
Social media was agog on Saturday with reports of Shah Rukh Khan carrying expensive watches. The officer further said, ” Ravi Singh, (Shah Rukh Khan’s bodyguard) was escorted with one bag, which had the goods for payment of duty along with one customs officer to Terminal 2. Over there, Ravi paid the customs duty of Rs 6.88 lakhs (calculated as per the customs duty of 38.5 percent).”
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