Pune: Flights from Dubai are keeping the customs officers on their toes at the Pune International Airport. They have to be at their vigilant best even while checking innocuous items like talcum powder containers or innerwear's lining.
Two women passengers were arrested on Monday at the international airport for smuggling 795 grams of gold worth Rs 21.96 lakh from Dubai. One of them had disguised the rhodium-plated gold as the lining of her innerwear.The other had packed a gold sheet inside a duplicate television set.
The customs department's Pune team, led by additional commissioner KP Singh, arrested the women on the basis of intelligence inputs.
A customs officer of Pune told TOI that they had received intelligence inputs about the smuggling of gold from Dubai. After the flight landed at the airport, the team identified a 20-year-old woman hailing from Trombay in Mumbai. "We found that she had disguised the gold as the lining of her innerwear. She had smuggled 329 grams of rhodium-plated gold rings," the officer said.
20/10/15 Times of India
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Two women passengers were arrested on Monday at the international airport for smuggling 795 grams of gold worth Rs 21.96 lakh from Dubai. One of them had disguised the rhodium-plated gold as the lining of her innerwear.The other had packed a gold sheet inside a duplicate television set.
The customs department's Pune team, led by additional commissioner KP Singh, arrested the women on the basis of intelligence inputs.
A customs officer of Pune told TOI that they had received intelligence inputs about the smuggling of gold from Dubai. After the flight landed at the airport, the team identified a 20-year-old woman hailing from Trombay in Mumbai. "We found that she had disguised the gold as the lining of her innerwear. She had smuggled 329 grams of rhodium-plated gold rings," the officer said.
20/10/15 Times of India
