Mumbai: An Indigo flight departing to Muscat was detained by the Mumbai Customs Wednesday evening after 6 kg gold worth Rs 1.49 crore was found in its toilets. While no arrests were made and the aircraft remains detained till Thursday afternoon, this is the first time gold was recovered from a departing aircraft, said customs officials.
Based on specific inputs, customs officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) intercepted the ‘scheduled to depart’ Indigo flight 6E 81. “Twenty seconds inside the aircraft’s toilets and we took out six bars of gold worth Rs 4.9 crore,” said an official with the Air Intelligence Unit. “The gold was found concealed ‘ingeniously’ behind the wash basin in the three toilets of the aircraft.”
19/02/15 Anjali Lukose/Indian Express
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Based on specific inputs, customs officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) intercepted the ‘scheduled to depart’ Indigo flight 6E 81. “Twenty seconds inside the aircraft’s toilets and we took out six bars of gold worth Rs 4.9 crore,” said an official with the Air Intelligence Unit. “The gold was found concealed ‘ingeniously’ behind the wash basin in the three toilets of the aircraft.”
19/02/15 Anjali Lukose/Indian Express
