The latest celebrity to be held by custom officials is none other than King Khan himself.
He joins the growing list of Bollywood celebrities who have been held up at the airport by custom officials.
Shah Rukh was detained at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport when the custom officers grew suspicious of the excess baggage that accompanied SRK and his family back from a vacation in Holland and London. He was stopped for further interrogation while his family was allowed to leave the airport.
Later he was allowed to leave after paying Rs. 1.5 lakhs as a fine for his excess of 20 bags. Though the sum might be a small amount for SRK, it sure is quite an amount for an ordinary man returning from his vacation.
Earlier, Bipasha Basu was also faced with a similar situation and was detained at the Mumbai airport on her return from London, owing to excess baggage.
She too was let off only after paying off Rs. 12,000 as tax against the goods that she had brought along.
There have been several Bollywood stars who have come under the Customs scanner before and have had to go through a tough ordeal.
Meanwhile Shah Rukh has also been in the news for showering expensive gifts upon his friends. While he gifted Sanjay Dutt a custom-made cruiser motorcycle imported from Italy and a designer watch, he also gave Priyanka Chopra a limited edtion acoustic guitar as her birthday gift. SRK definitely seems to be on a spending spree, either by will or because of the law.
