DRI DETAINS RAHAT WITH UNDECLARED $1.24 LAKH AT IGIA
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By a Staff Reporter
The Pioneer
Monday, February 14, 2011
Indraprasth aka New Delhi - Renowned sufi singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
was detained at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Sunday
evening, and later taken into custody, for allegedly possessing an
undeclared huge amount of foreign currency.
Besides Rahat, two other persons, including an event manager, too
were detained by the Revenue Intelligence sleuths for carrying
undeclared foreign currency of $1.24 lakh. According to sources,
Direct-orate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials have taken Rahat
into custody and are questioning him and his two partners.
The singer arrived at IGI Airport on Sunday on a flight from Karachi
and was intercepted by a special team of DRI personnel, official
sources said.
Rahat was in possession of $24,000 while his other two partners were
having $50,000 each. They had not declared about the money they
possessed to the immigration authorities.
According to official sources, a person on air transit can carry only
$5,000, to carry amount beyond that one has to take permission from
the authorities.
According to sources, Rahat and the other two persons claimed that
the foreign currency which they were carrying was the payment of
their shows.
"The DRI officers are ascertaining the real source of the money and
whether the singer was carrying valid documents or not," official
sources added. Custom officials, Delhi Police, CISF personnel,
however, said that they were not informed about the DRI operation
beforehand and they do not know anything about the detention of the
singer and his aides.
The 37-year-old nephew of Pakistani singing legend Ustad Nusrat Fateh
Ali Khan was earlier too involved in a controversy when organisers of
a concert in Gurgaon filed a police complaint against him in July
last year for his failure to turn up for a show. Rahat has several
hit numbers to his credit and has won the Filmfare Award for Best
Male Playback Singer this year for Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji from the
movie Ishqiya.
He has toured extensively and performed in various parts of the
world. Rahat was last heard in Bollywood film Yamla Pagla Deewana,
which starred Dharmendra, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol.
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