Ahmedabad: Custom officials detained a man carrying a consignment of 2.5 kg rough diamonds at the Ahmedabad international airport in the wee hours of Sunday.
Keshav Naran, 40, had arrived by the Sharjah-Ahmedabad flight and had hidden the diamonds in the dust basket of a vacuum cleaner.
An alert custom officer found Naran's movements suspicious from the time he arrived by the Sharjah flight.
Naran was asked to open his bags and then a separate team checked the potable vacuum cleaner in one of the bags. Officials recovered nearly 2.5 kg of rough diamonds of minute sizes. The diamonds are estimated to be worth anywhere between Rs 20 lakh and Rs 2.5 crore. tnn "Our valuation team will declare the cost of the seizure in the next few days," says a senior custom official.
Hailing from Junagadh, Naran does odd jobs at Sharjah. Custom officials claim that he may be a carrier for a jeweller or a diamond trader in the city.
05/03/12 Times of India
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