Rakul Preet caught with bullet at Delhi airport

Rakul Preet was detained by the CISF at Delhi's domestic airport and grilled for over four hours for carrying a bullet in her laptop bag on Saturday. While the actress was going through security check at Delhi airport to board a Mumbai-bound flight, she was informed that a suspicious metallic object was found in one of her bags.

The security official asked for the bag to be checked and when he pulled the object out, it turned out to be a bullet. The officials then asked her to step aside. The bullet was examined and Rakul was told that it is an 8mm bullet, which is not found in India. She was then taken to Delhi's domestic airport police station for four hours and grilled about the bullet.

"I started panicking, sweating and crying," says Rakul recollecting the incident. "My dad is in the army, so I called him and asked if the bullet was his, since he has a licensed arm. But he told me that in India we don't make arms like that. The CISF guys started using legal jargon and mentioning terms like international crime, etc. My father came down, but there was so much confusion. First the cops couldn't figure out if the bullet was live or dead. When they finally figured that it was dead, there was the question of how I came to possess it. I was so panicky that I had completely blocked out my window of thought. I had come back from Bangkok two days ago and since they said that the bullet is not made in India, I started wondering if someone had slipped it into my bag," she says.

It's only later that the cops figured out that the bullet was dead and actually a fake one. "It's when I started really jogging my brain that I remembered that the bullet was from one of my shoots. In one of my Tamil films, I had used a revolver and it was a toy bullet from that. I had taken it as a keepsake and it had been in my bag for over eight months. But I was so shaken by then that I didn't know how to react. The bullet was all plastic inside. After that the cops let me go and told me to send them a DVD of the film in which I had used it," she narrates.

"Thankfully the nightmare ended and I boarded a flight to Mumbai soon," she says.