Actress Minissha Lamba in custody due to carrying Rs.50 lakh worth of jewellery

The Mumbai customs department detained actress Minissha Lamba at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Wednesday. Lamba arrived from the Emirates flight at around 8.30 am from the Cannes film festival.

When she walked in from the green channel, customs officials found some valuables in her hand baggage during the scanning. She has been charged with carrying Rs.50 lakh worth of jewellery above the permitted limit and was detained by custom officials.

Sources also told Minissha claimed that those ornaments were purchased in Mumbai and carried them to the Cannes festival. But Lamba couldn’t produce the declaration form and is learnt to have also lost her luggage at the Nice airport.

She spent the afternoon being questioned about the billing. She was arrested for this. A statement will be recorded and a case will be registered against her, too.

At the time of going to press not even her lawyer, her spokesperson, her family or the media was allowed to meet the actress.

The custom officials had been interrogating the actress. In case of jewelry worth up to R 5 lakh they could have bailed her on the grounds of being personal jewelry but as she was carrying jewels worth Rs 50 lakh, she had to be detained.