Mumbai:
A Mumbai court will hear Sheetal Mafatlal's bail plea on Tuesday afternoon. Sheetal was sent to judicial custody till June 12.
She was detained on Sunday upon arrival from London at the Mumbai International Airport for allegedly carrying undisclosed jewellery and diamonds worth 80 lakh rupees. She was booked under the Indian Customs Act.
A Page 3 fixture and part of Mumbai's glam gang, Sheetal Mafatlal, spent Monday night in jail.
"If the value of the goods are less than Rs 1 crore and the duty sought to be evaded is not more than Rs 30 lakh, it's a bailable offence. But in spite of that, probably at the instigation of some disgruntled opponent of Sheetal Mafatlal, she has been detained," said Satish Maneshinde, the defence lawyer.
Sources say the tip-off against Sheetal came from within the family. The Mafatlal family feud is well-known -- Sheetal and her husband Atulya on one side, Atulya's mother and brother on the other. They are fighting over a multi-crore home.