COIMBATORE: Barely 14 days after just about half-a-kilogram of gold was once seized from a passenger within the town airport, customs officers intercepted every other passenger on Saturday and seized five gold bars weighing about 500 grams value Rs 17.93 lakh. Twenty-nine-year-old Muhammed Salih, a local of Malappuram in Kerala, had concealed the gold bars in his rectum, the officers mentioned.
A staff of customs officers led via assistant commissioner Roy Joseph had apprehended the passenger, who came from Sharjah on an Air Arabia flight, in keeping with a tip-off. After they came to understand that Muhammed had concealed gold bars inside of his body, he was once taken to a non-public medical institution, the place he underwent an X-ray exam. It published that he had concealed five gold bars of 24 carat purity, weighing about 583.2 grams, in his rectum.
Muhammed instructed the officers that he had left for Dubai searching for task on October 28. "He had completed schooling and was jobless. At that time, some people approached him asking him to carry gold to Coimbatore. From then, he has been functioning as a carrier. He used to get a commission for smuggling gold bars," an legitimate mentioned.
Meanwhile, customs department assets mentioned that they can't arrest the provider if the smuggled gold is value less than Rs 20 lakh. "We can arrest only those who smuggle gold worth more than Rs 20 lakh. We have to release those who smuggle gold worth Rs 20 lakh to Rs 1 crore on bail, after getting two sureties. Such people will have to be appear before the customs officials every day until further order. Those who smuggle gold worth more than Rs 1 crore will be remanded to judicial custody," an legitimate mentioned.
In the remaining 3 months, 10 makes an attempt to smuggle gold from the Gulf countries and Sri Lanka were foiled in Coimbatore airport. Customs officers additionally seized greater than 30kg of gold.
A staff of customs officers led via assistant commissioner Roy Joseph had apprehended the passenger, who came from Sharjah on an Air Arabia flight, in keeping with a tip-off. After they came to understand that Muhammed had concealed gold bars inside of his body, he was once taken to a non-public medical institution, the place he underwent an X-ray exam. It published that he had concealed five gold bars of 24 carat purity, weighing about 583.2 grams, in his rectum.
Muhammed instructed the officers that he had left for Dubai searching for task on October 28. "He had completed schooling and was jobless. At that time, some people approached him asking him to carry gold to Coimbatore. From then, he has been functioning as a carrier. He used to get a commission for smuggling gold bars," an legitimate mentioned.
Meanwhile, customs department assets mentioned that they can't arrest the provider if the smuggled gold is value less than Rs 20 lakh. "We can arrest only those who smuggle gold worth more than Rs 20 lakh. We have to release those who smuggle gold worth Rs 20 lakh to Rs 1 crore on bail, after getting two sureties. Such people will have to be appear before the customs officials every day until further order. Those who smuggle gold worth more than Rs 1 crore will be remanded to judicial custody," an legitimate mentioned.
In the remaining 3 months, 10 makes an attempt to smuggle gold from the Gulf countries and Sri Lanka were foiled in Coimbatore airport. Customs officers additionally seized greater than 30kg of gold.
Man caught for smuggling half-a-kilogram gold
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