Mumbai, June 28: Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma was allowed to go home early today after she was questioned for over ten hours by custom officials regarding her undeclared belongings.
She was on board an Air India flight, that was operated specially to ferry participants from the recently concluded IIFA awards at Toronto, and was detained yesterday at the International airport here for carrying unaccounted gold, diamond jewellery and other belongings worth Rs 35 lakh.
Her collection of undeclared valuables included a necklace, a pendant and rings and two costly branded watches, estimated to be worth Rs 6 and 4 lakh, respectively.
According to officials, a case against her has been lodged under different sections of the customs act.
Her statement was recorded by customs officials and she will be called for questioning again, if required. The officials are also verifying the documents provided by her claiming that they were taken from India, sources added.
The 23-year-old star claimed that while going abroad, she had taken the valuables from India and had declared the goods at that time and hence need not pay the duty.
—Agencies