Customs preventive officers at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Saturday seized 1,483 grams of gold worth over Rs 68 lakh from a passenger, a Customs official informed on Saturday.
Kozhikode (Kerala) [India], September 16 (ANI): The customs department arrested two officials of IndiGo Airlines for allegedly helping in gold smuggling at Kozhikode international airport (Karipur airport) on Thursday.
Kochi (Kerala) [India], September 12 (ANI): The customs department claimed to have seized gold worth Rs 42 lakh from a passenger who arrived on Monday from Dubai at Kochi airport in Kerala.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 30 (ANI): Gold ornaments worth around Rs 40 lakh were seized by Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) on Friday at Kolkata airport.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India] July 26 (ANI): Rummaging through a Bangkok-Kolkata SpiceJet flight on Tuesday, Air Intelligence officers at the Kolkata airport recovered 12 cut pieces of foreign-origin gold bars, worth over Rs 30 lakh. The total weight of the gold is approximately 600 grams.
New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): The Customs department at Indira Gandhi International airport on Wednesday arrested an Indian couple who had arrived from Vietnam and seized at least 45 guns worth more than Rs 22 lakh from their bags.
Palakkad (Kerala) [India], June 12 (ANI): Congress workers held a protest in Palakkad on Sunday wearing black clothes and holding black balloons and flags demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan days after gold smuggling case prime accused Swapna Suresh's allegations against him.
Champhai (Mizoram), June 1 (ANI): Serchhip Battalion of 23 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of Inspector General Assam Rifles (East), recovered a huge quantity of foreign origin cigarettes worth Rs 91 lakh in Mizoram's Champhai district along India-Myanmar border on Tuesday.
Chennai Apr 22 PTI Foreign currencies equivalent to Rs 195 crore gold foils cigarettes and electronic goods worth Rs 4392 lakh have been seized at the airport here in two separate incidents and three passengers arrested in this connection the Customs Department said on Friday In the first incident on Thursday the Customs officials intercepted some passengers bound for various destinations including Dubai and Colombo and confiscated the currencies concealed in their rectum and in the hand baggage Two passengers belonging to Chennai were arrested said a Customs Department press release In the second incident the officials seized the gold foils cigarettes and electronic goods from a passenger who arrived here from Dubai on Friday He was arrested and an investigation was on the release said PTI VIJ NVG NVG