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.
During the examination of the said passenger, 3 capsules of gold in compound form weighing 874 grams concealed inside his body were recovered and seized, added officials.
According to a senior official of the Pune Police, the accused were also found in possession of PAN cards, Aadhaar cards, and voter ID cards which were made using forged documents.
In a joint operation, the military intelligence unit (Southern Command Liaison Unit) of the Army and Pune city police have busted a fake recruitment racket and apprehended a man for allegedly defrauding 42 youths for Rs 1.8 crore under the pretext of recruiting them into the Army, the offici
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.
After a series of operations on the basis of specific inputs and profiling, Hyderabad customs officers at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) seized a total of 3.734 kgs of smuggled gold, valued at Rs 2.19 crore and foreign currency worth Rs 16.46 lakhs.
Topics like good practice in terror investigations and dismantling of the terror ecosystem will be discussed in the two sessions to be held today following the inauguration of the Anti-Terror Conference 2023 by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
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.