A passenger, who arrived from Colombo, was intercepted at Chennai airport on Monday for carrying gold weighing 697 grams valued at Rs 35.81 lakh, Chennai customs said.
"During the further investigation into the case, we got info about a similar network and on Saturday with the help of local police, we seized 3 SIM boxes, routers and mobile phones from a house in UP's Modinagar town," Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP) Jitendra Yadav, Ahmedabad said.
Air Customs Intelligence officials have seized 3.5 kg of gold worth around Rs 2 crore, which was tried to be smuggled through Kozhikode Airport in Karirpur on Thursday night in four different cases.
In a joint operation police and Assam Rifles on Friday seized 276 grams of Brown Sugar worth Rs 55 lakh and apprehended a drug peddler in Assam's Karimganj district.
Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) of the Delhi Police's Crime Branch arrested 4 persons, during separate raids, for peddling drugs in the national capital and seized heroin worth Rs 1 crore.
Of the seized amount, the NIA team seized Rs 5.5 lakhs from one suspected account and also recovered Rs 1 lakh that one accused named Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi had stashed away raising the total recovery to Rs 7,80,000 in this case.