According to officials, the seized gold is valued at Rs 98 lakh, and it was brought by a passenger who had arrived from the capital city of Qatar, Doha.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) busted another branch of a gold smuggling syndicate involved in the smuggling of foreign-origin gold through land and train routes and seized a huge quantity of smuggled gold weighing 13.7 kg valued at Rs 8.5 crore on October 30-31 from Mumbai an
The Central Intelligence Unit (CIU) and Trichy Customs department officials jointly seized a total of 1.833 kg of gold from three passengers at Trichy airport, officials said on Wednesday.
Nagpur Crime Branch recovered Rs 70 lakh cash and 2 kg gold biscuits in the raid conducted in Gondia in the online gaming case on Friday and apprehended two persons in connection with the same, police said.
The gold bar was extracted from gold paste kept in capsules concealed in the rectum by the passenger. The seized gold, weighing 717 grams, was priced at Rs 42.91 lakhs, a Customs Department official said.
One person was detained after the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU), Kochi seized gold worth Rs 50 lakhs concealed in cylindrical shaped capsules from a passenger who arrived from Jeddah on Sunday.
Two large pieces of gold having a purity of 24 karats, weighing 1022 grams and 850 grams respectively valued at Rs 1,08,10,800 were extracted from paste-like materials concealed in shoes and underwear worn by children of a male passenger, a release said.
Customs officers of the Cochin International Airport intercepted a woman passenger on Tuesday and seized gold that was found stitched inside the innerwear slip worn by her, said officers.
The officials said that a passenger identified as Shamnas was arriving from Dubai and he was intercepted on the basis of profiling done by the officers of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU).
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Customs Department in Kochi seized gold hidden in paste form between two layers of undergarments from a passenger identified as Sakeer, who travelling from Sharjah, UAE.