Duty-free shops operating within airports are not exempt from India's domestic regulatory laws, the Bombay High Court has ruled, refusing to interfere with a ban on the sale of imported nicotine pouches at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.
A division bench of Justices Suman Shyam and Advait Sethna, in a judgment passed on Tuesday, held that goods imported into India remain subject to the country's laws even when they are brought in for warehousing or re-export.
