21 persons including army officers send legal notice to Akshay Kumar,

In an unprecedented move, twenty one individuals including eleven serving Army officers, seven retired officers, have sent a legal notice to Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, his wife Twinkle Khanna and auction house over auctioning a naval costume Akshay donned in the movie 'Rustom'. In the notice, the star couple have been asked to stop the auction of "Akshay Kumar's Rustom Naval Officer Uniform", failing which legal action will be taken against them.

The list also includes one air force officer and wife of a Naval officer.

The legal notice says that the "uniforms resembling those of armed forces pose potential threat to to national security as the said uniform, insignia and badges could pass for genuine service clothing and can find their way to anti-national elements who can use it to foment trouble."

The notice also states that after the Pathankot attack, "Indian Army had issued guidelines urging civilians across the country to avoid wearing army pattern dresses and shopkeepers were asked to not sell combat clothes, uniforms and equipments as it is 'illegal to do so'. Thus, by putting the naval officer uniform for auction you have shown disrespect to national interest and have hurt the sentiments of armed force personnel."

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Earlier on April 30, an Army man had written an open letter to Twinkle Khanna slamming her and Akshay for their move and also threatening to take a legal recourse.

Criticising the idea of auctioning the uniform, Sandeep Ahlawat, a serving army officer, in a Facebook post had said that "What Akshay wore in the movie was a costume, not uniform Indian Armed forces' wives do not auction their husbands' uniforms.

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Akshay Kumar had taken to Twitter to announce that the naval officer uniform he donned in the movie Rustom' is going up for auction. The bidding is for raising money for an NGO Janice's Trust which works for animal rescue. Akshay's wife Twinkle Khanna also shared the news on all her social media. However, even as most of the social media users hailed the move, a section of netizens were not very happy with the move. The auction move did not go down well with some social media users as they are of the opinion that it's an insult to the defence fraternity because their uniform is too priceless to be auctioned off.