Customs officials seized 1329 g of gold paste worth Rs 81.6 lakh at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), Hyderabad on Sunday, informed the officials.
Hyderabad Customs seized 1.93 kgs. of smuggled gold valued at Rs 1.17 Crores in two different cases, and 62,400 smuggled cigarette sticks in the other two cases on July 9, 2023.
Hyderabad Customs officers seized 2.279 Kg. of smuggled Gold from three persons in three different cases, and more than one lakh smuggled Cigarette sticks kept in one case.
Hyderabad Airport Customs on Wednesday seized over 2 Kg of gold valued at over Rs 1 crore in three separate cases and over 1 lakh cigarette sticks at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, officials said.
"Based on pax profiling by Customs, a male pax who arrived on Saturday vide Flight no 6E-1484 (Dubai to Hyderabad) has been intercepted by the officers of Customs Air Intelligence unit of Hyderabad Customs, RGIA," the official said.
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.
"On the basis of specific intelligence, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials intercepted one female passenger, an Indian national arriving from Malawi to Hyderabad via Doha on May 7, 2023," the Customs Department said in a statement.
Foiling a smuggling bid, Hyderabad Customs seized gold worth Rs 16.5 lakh from two passengers at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport coming from Dubai on Tuesday.
Responding to the emergency landing of the Varanasi -bound flight, IndiGo airlines on Tuesday stated that the flight was diverted to Hyderabad as a 'precaution'.
Last week, Nikhat Zareen claimed her second World Boxing Championship gold and retained the title, becoming only the second Indian female athlete to have two World Championship gold medals to her name
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Hyderabad Customs department intercepted a male passenger arriving from Dubai and recovered two gold rods worth Rs 13.72 lakh at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport on Thursday.