A 44-year-old woman was arrested at Indira Gandhi International Airport for allegedly smuggling gold worth Rs 50 lakh from Dubai to Delhi by concealing it in her rectum, Delhi Customs officials said.
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence recovered 12 kg of gold worth Rs. 9.6 Crores concealed inside the consignment of DJ lights which was being smuggled through the Air cargo complex in Mumbai
On examination, 24 oval-shaped balls of gold dust in wax form, weighing 12.5 kg and valued at Rs 9.95 crore, were recovered, they said, adding that the gold was seized under the provisions of the Customs Act, 1962.
A passenger travelling from Saudi Arabia's Riyadh to New Delhi was intercepted on Tuesday by customs officials, based on intelligence input at the national capital's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, officials said on Wednesday.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Kolkata arrested a notorious drug trafficker with a history of gold smuggling wanted in a seizure of a huge quantity of bottles of Codeine Based Cough Syrups (CBCS), officials said on Saturday.
Delhi customs intercepted two passengers on Wednesday at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in New Delhi for an alleged smuggling attempt of 538 grams of gold and four iPhones.
In a letter released by the Chief Minister's Office (CMO), Pinarayi Vijayan refuted two allegations made by the Governor: one claiming that the CM "lacks credibility" and is hiding certain things, and another suggesting that the Kerala Police had stated that smuggled gold was used to fund ba
On September 30, a media report emerged that attributed remarks to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan concerning gold smuggling in the Malappuram district. The Chief Minister's office later issued a clarification, stating that the quotes had been wrongly attributed to him.
Kerala Police Chief Shaik Darvesh Saheb and Chief Secretary Sarada Muraleedharan will not appear before Governor Arif Mohammed Khan to explain Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's remarks regarding gold smuggling in Malappuram.
Amid the controversy regarding Kerala Chief Minister's misattributed remarks on gold smuggling, the Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s state secretary M V Govindan said on Friday that the media is spreading "false narratives" on the remarks.
The Congress MLA referenced a media report published on September 30, where a quote was attributed to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan talking about gold smuggling in the Malappuram district. The Chief Minister's office later issued a clarification on the remarks, saying that those