New Delhi | The Customs official here on Wednesday said that they have arrested a man who was attempting to smuggle gold worth Rs 69.40 lakh by concealing it in the false cavity of his slippers. A senior Customs official said that on March 12, the accused who arrived from Bangkok to Bengaluru by Indigo flight, […]
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Man pastes Rs 21 lakh worth of gold on his back to smuggle it
Lucknow: The Customs Department at the Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport here in the Uttar Pradesh capital on Friday apprehended a man trying to smuggle 542g gold valued at Rs 21,46,320 lakh. He flew in from Dubai in flight number IX 194 to Lucknow and was arrested after the precious yellow metal in the form […]
Passenger smuggling gold in button form held at Imphal
Imphal : A passenger seeking to smuggling an amount of gold in the form of buttons was caught at Imphal Airport, an CISF official said on Monday. Pradeep Kumar, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur, was caught on Sunday afternoon during pre-embarkation security check as he was going to board an Indigo flight to Kolkata, […]
Gold biscuits seized from former Mizoram legislator’s son
Kolkata : Sleuths have seized 40 gold biscuits of foreign origin smuggled into India and valued at Rs 2.16 crore in the international market from the son of a former Mizoram lawmaker, a Directorate of Revenue Intelligence statement said on Sunday. The gold biscuits smuggled out of Myanmar and weighing 6.64 kg were found in […]