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An immigration officer from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport harassed  actress Shilpa Shetty recently. Apparently the immigration officials were not informed of the Supreme Court clearance given to the Bollywood actor to travel abroad.

A court in Alwar district of Rajasthan issued a ‘look-out notice’ for Shilpa  and states that  she shouldn’t be allowed to leave the country till the Richard Gere-Shilpa Shetty case was over.


Her spokesperson Dale Bhagwagar said: “The immigration authorities at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport just seemed to refuse to take note of this clearance of Shilpa’s name by the Supreme Court.”
“She called me in the middle of the night and was in tears saying an inspector had treated her badly, and told her she could not travel out of the country as there was no clearance order from the Court,” Bhagwagar said.

“I can understand something like this if I’d committed a criminal offence. But what was my offence, when I’m just an actor, going to perform a musical on foreign land, representing my country? I don’t need to be treated like this in my own country. It’s terrible,” said Shilpa before she left.

Shilpa is planning to take action against the immigration authorities for what she termed as offensive behaviour.