Thursday, April 09, 2015

Domestic passenger held for smuggling gold worth Rs 18 lakh

Ahmedabad: The Air Intelligence Unit of Customs department on Tuesday morning held a Punjab based man for smuggling 659 grams of gold worth Rs 17.89 lakh at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport. Harpreet Singh was with six gold bars which were concealed in rectum. Interestingly, Singh was a domestic passenger as he had flown in from Delhi.
Singh had arrived from Air India's flight AI-019 from Delhi on Tuesday morning.
"He was a domestic passenger and he had picked up the gold bars from an international passenger. The exchange of gold bars happened inside the toilet at the international terminal," said a Customs official.
08/04/15 Piyush Mishra/Times of India
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