"During the examination of the said passenger, 3 capsules of gold in compound form weighing 873.98 grams concealed inside his body were recovered and seized," officials said.
The passengers, who were dropped off at the domestic arrivals bus gate instead of the internatonal arrivals bus gate at the Bengaluru Airport, travelled on a Sri Lankan Airlines UL 173 flight, according to a spokesperson of BIAL (Bengaluru International Airport Limited).
"On March 9 at about 8: 15 pm, CISF surveillance and intelligence staff noticed suspicious activities of a lady passenger at the Check-in area, Terminal-3 of IGI Airport," the statement said.
Noting an overcrowding-like situation in Delhi airport yesterday, a senior official in the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) on Thursday said that the average time for departure immigration at the airport is around 20 minutes, but sometimes it gets delayed due to the rebalancing of manpower.
In the Digi Yatra process, there is no central storage of passengers' Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) said on Thursday.
Kolkata Railway Station is an international station handling two inter-dominion trains connecting Kolkata to Dhaka and Khulna. To facilitate such overseas passengers availing Visa services for Bangladesh-bound trains, the Visa Information and Application Centre has started operating at the K
The Delhi High court on Wednesday granted time to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to place on record the documents related to the constitution of the appellate Committee looking into the appeals of unruly Air passengers.
The airport official said that it is the responsibility of the Ministry of Home Affairs to ensure the smooth functioning of immigration at the airport.
During the investigation, it was revealed that said contraband was to be delivered at Doha as per direction of her friend namely Mushtaqh who is resident of California.
"During the examination of the said passenger, grey-coloured trunk underwear weighing 649.05-gram gold in paste form was seized," the customs official said.