Customs officials on Tuesday seized gold weighing 554.600 grammes from a passenger at Cochin International Airport. The passenger was concealing the gold inside his rectum, the officials said.
"Based on intelligence, the passenger was intercepted by customs officials at the arrival hall. On his examination one gold chain of 181.00 Grams concealed in a pant pocket and 39 Nos. of rectangular-shaped thin gold plates weighing 201 grams, ingeniously concealed in old smartphones was rec
The Border Security Force (BSF), belonging to the 35 Battalion under the South Bengal Frontier, on Thursday, apprehended a man for allegedly possessing gold worth Rs 16,46,190, weighing 277.37 grams from his possession, said a statement by BSF.
Two youths were arrested with gold worth Rs 1.07 crores hidden in their underwear at Lucknow's Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, said customs officials on Wednesday.
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.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) Mumbai has arrested four passengers in two separate cases and seized more than 10 kg of gold, said the DRI officials.
According to officials, the estimated value of seized gold biscuits is Rs1.26 crore. The biscuits were recovered from a man and woman during a search carried out jointly by GRP and Revenue Intelligence on Tuesday.
"Based on specific information received, a male passenger who arrived from Jeddah by Indigo flight 6E-068 at 8:30 AM on May 16 was intercepted by Customs Air Intelligence officers of Hyderabad Customs, RGIA," a customs official said.
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 3535 grams of gold worth Rs 2.23 crore from two passengers arriving from Dubai at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai, officials said on Tuesday.