Thursday, April 28, 2011

Man on wheelchair sneaks in watches worth Rs. 7 lakh

Within the space of an hour early on Monday morning, in two separate incidents, the Customs department at the airport nabbed two passengers who arrived from Dubai both for trying to smuggle in expensive wrist watches.
The alert Customs officers first caught a passenger who had hidden watches in two pairs of underwear he was wearing, and then apprehended a 60-year-old passenger who was confined to a wheelchair.
Champalal Jain, who arrived by a Kingfisher flight around 4 am, suffers from diabetes, is on dialysis and has other health problems. Under cover of his illness, he hoped to pass through the Green Channel, despite carrying contraband items.
Seated in a wheelchair, Jain was being escorted by two airport staff when he was stopped by hesitant Customs officers at the Green Channel. “Jain appeared rather frail and unable to walk,” said a Custom officer. “He needed somebody to escort him and hence we initially hesitated to stop him.”
28/04/11 Preety Acharya/Mumbai Mirror
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