A Jet Airways staffer is among three men arrested by the customs officials in two separate cases of gold smuggling at Delhi airport, according to an official statement issued on January 25.
Acting on a input, a Jet Airways technician was intercepted on January 23. A detailed personal search resulted in recovery of four gold bars, total weighing 1.3 kg, valued at Rs 43.36 lakh, from the pocket of a trouser worn by him, the customs department said in the statement.
On enquiry, the accused said he was to hand over these gold bars to a person waiting outside Aerocity metro station near the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, it said.
A team of customs officials then arrested the receiver of the gold bars from outside the Aerocity metro station, the statement said.
"The officers were trying to catch the person who may have brought gold and handed it over to the Jet Airways technician," a senior customs official added.
25/01/19 PTI/moneycontrol.com
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Acting on a input, a Jet Airways technician was intercepted on January 23. A detailed personal search resulted in recovery of four gold bars, total weighing 1.3 kg, valued at Rs 43.36 lakh, from the pocket of a trouser worn by him, the customs department said in the statement.
On enquiry, the accused said he was to hand over these gold bars to a person waiting outside Aerocity metro station near the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, it said.
A team of customs officials then arrested the receiver of the gold bars from outside the Aerocity metro station, the statement said.
"The officers were trying to catch the person who may have brought gold and handed it over to the Jet Airways technician," a senior customs official added.
25/01/19 PTI/moneycontrol.com
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