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Actor Dulquer Salmaan approached the Kerala High Court connected Friday (September 26, 2025), challenging the determination of Customs unit to prehend 1 of his high-end cars connected the complaint of suspected taxation evasion.
A Land Rover was seized from his location astatine Elamkulam successful Kochi, Kerala, arsenic portion of the crackdown connected celebrities who reportedly purchased 36 high-end utilized cars from Bhutan utilizing forged documents.
Mr. Salmaan contended successful his plea earlier the Kerala High Court that the conveyance was purchased from the Indian Red Cross.
The Customs Preventive helping connected Tuesday (September 23, 2025) conducted Statewide raids astatine the residences and premises of high-net-worth individuals successful Kerala, including salient actors and industrialists, arsenic portion of the crackdown connected alleged amerciable import of premium vehicles from Bhutan.
The cognition was named Numkhor, which successful Bhutanese means ‘vehicle.’
Customs officials had examined the houses of actors Dulquer Salmaan and Prithviraj Sukumaran in Kochi, among others.
The Customs had seized 38 truthful acold “high-value second-hand cars” suspected to person been smuggled successful from Bhutan implicit the past fewer years.
The Motor Vehicles department, Anti-Terrorist Squad, and Kerala Police extended support.
Indian instrumentality prohibits the import of second-hand vehicles but nether the Transfer of Residence (TR) provision, which allows vehicles utilized for 3 years oregon much to beryllium imported and registered upon outgo of a 160% duty.
