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Suppliers of `Kambakkht Ishq` lose Rs 57 lakh |
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Mumbai: The suppliers of much-awaited movie `Kambakkht Ishq` had to pay a big amount of Rs 57 lakh before its release. According to an investigation by BMC`s vigilance department, more than 819 boxes of colour positive films, used for copying the original film and distributing them across cinemas, was brought into the city without paying octroi duty.
The film stars Sylvester Stallone, Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor. Acting on a tip-off, a three-member vigilance team of Prakash Desai, Dinkar Waydande, and Walmik Bele visited Adlabs at Goregaon and found that trucks carrying 379 boxes of positive films arrived last week. An octroi of 5.5% of the total value of the positives is collected as octroi.
Waydande said, "We realised that octroi was not paid on the positives which had been brought to the city. The positives should have been brought into the city after paying an octroi of Rs3.45 lakh. We stopped the delivery of the positives after learning that the duty was not paid."
N Pathan, the BMC`s assesor and collector, said, "We wrote to the film producers, Eros International, and official suppliers, Photo Film Industries, asking them to pay the octroi along with a fine. According to municipal rules, evaders are fined 10 times the octroi levy as penalty. The total recovery amount in this case worked out to Rs 37.98 lakh."
According to a representative from Eros International, the octroi payment was the supplier`s responsibility. The suppliers, Photo Film Industries, agreed to make the payment as they did not want to affect the film`s official release on July 3. In fact, the suppliers paid the octroi and fine for another consignment of 440 boxes of positive films, which were brought into the city without paying octroi. Pathan said Rs 57.54 lakh was collected from the supplier.
(Posted on : 02/07/2009)
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