Days after actor Rahul Bose posted a video on Twitter complaining about the exorbitant bill for just two bananas in hotel JW Marriott in Chandigarh, Tax authorities on Saturday fined the hotel Rs. 25,000 for violating regulation by collecting tax on an exempted item.
On Monday, Rahul Bose’s video complaint went viral on Twitter after he roasted the hotel for charging him Rs. 442 for two bananas.
Posting the video on the microblogging website, he wrote, “You have to see this to believe it. Who said fruit wasn’t harmful to your existence? Ask the wonderful folks at @JWMarriottChd #goingbananas #howtogetfitandgobroke #potassiumforkings.”
You have to see this to believe it. Who said fruit wasn’t harmful to your existence? Ask the wonderful folks at @JWMarriottChd #goingbananas #howtogetfitandgobroke #potassiumforkings pic.twitter.com/SNJvecHvZB
— Rahul Bose (@RahulBose1) July 22, 2019
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The fine was imposed after the hotel authorities fail to give a satisfactory reply on a show-cause notice served over the issue.
“In this matter, a showcase notice was issued to the hotel management. They were called today for the reply. But they could not give a satisfactory reply. So after hearing, they have been imposed with the fine,” said R K Chaudhry, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner, UT Chandigarh.
The Dil Dhadakne Do (2015) actor sardonically ended the video saying, “They’re just too good for me.”
Rahul Bose was last seen in Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam 2 (2018).