Bollywood's Badshah Shah Rukh Khan was detained at the Los Angeles airport on Friday. He expressed his displeasure over social media to which Nisha Biswal and US Envoy to India Richard Verman apologised.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was again "detained" at US' Los Angeles airport, the third time in seven years that he has been stopped by US immigration officials at the country's airports.
Shah Rukh took to Twitter to express his disappointment:
Apologising for Khan being detained, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia in the US Department of State tweeted to the actor saying:
SRK replied to Biswal saying though he understands the protocol, it is just inconvenient.
US envoy to India, Richard Verma too tweeted apologising to the actor:
In April 2012, Khan was detained at the White Plains airport near New York for over two hours by immigration officials.
Khan was in the US to visit Yale University and was accompanied by Nita Ambani, wife of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani. He was understood to have been travelling in a private plane.
Following the incident, sources had then told PTI that while Ambani and the rest of their group was cleared immediately, Khan was stopped and was given immigration clearance only after about two hours. Yale University officials had to contact and speak with officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Department of US Immigration and Customs in Washington when they were informed that Khan was held up at the airport.
After the incident in New York, Khan had said, "Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself I always take a trip to America. The immigration guys kicked the star out of stardom," Khan had said to the Yale students.
In 2009, Khan was detained at the Newark Airport in New Jersey for nearly two hours. Following the incident, Khan had sought to downplay the "unfortunate procedure" at Newark airport and had said that he would not demand an apology.
(With PTI inputs)
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