Acting on a tip-off, a combined team of Assam Rifles and Customs Department Champhai under the supervision of Inspector General Assam Rifles (East) carried out an operation on June 5.
Hyderabad Customs officers seized 2.279 Kg. of smuggled Gold from three persons in three different cases, and more than one lakh smuggled Cigarette sticks kept in one case.
"Delhi Customs held one Kenyan passenger who arrived at IGI Airport, Delhi from Addis Ababa with three whisky bottles collectively weighing 4.145 Kg, and recovered a total of 2537 grams of cocaine (approximately), having an international value of Rs 38.05 Crore," an official statement said.
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) at Trichy International Airport arrested a passenger on Tuesday and seized 318.5 grams of 24-carat gold worth Rs 19.12 lakh.
The pax was on Air-India express, flight number IX-474. Four capsules of gold in compund form were concelaed inside his body. The passenger, identified as Asraf, is a native of Kozhikode. The gold has been seized from his possession. Investigation is going on.
"The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU), Kochi, seized 2207.24 gms of foreign-origin gold jewelry worth Rs 1,21,83,965 from 4 passengers who had arrived from Malaysia at Kochi Airport," the official statement said.
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Customs Department seized gold worth Rs 28 lakh from a passenger coming from Dubai at Tiruchirappalli International Airport.
Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Customs Department has seized 1705.3 grams of gold worth more than core from two male passengers at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport who were concealing it in the form of gold paste in their rectum, an official statement said on Tuesday.
Customs department on Friday carried out the destruction of seized drugs worth over Rs 1,500 crore at an incineration facility in Mumbai, an official statement said.