13-kg saffron seized at airport

Hyderabad: Two persons were detained by custom officials at the RGI airport in Hyderabad on charges of smuggling 13 kg of saffron. Rangrej Javed Akh-tar Abdul Saeed and Rangej Mustafa Moham-med Husain of Kalupur, Ahmedabad, who had arrived from Dubai at 2.55 pm here on Saturday, were detained by customs officials on the charges of smuggling saffron valued at about Rs 8-10 lakh. The same sells for nearly three times the amount in the open market. There has been a spate of incidents of saffron smuggling detected by the air intelligence units of the Customs department at various international terminals including Hyd-erabad, Mumbai, Manga-lore and Bengaluru.
25/12/11 Deccan Chronicle

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Categories: airports Dec 2011