MOHALI: Gold biscuits value Rs 76.28 lakh had been found hidden in a hollow space close to a seat on a flight from Dubai at the Chandigarh international airport on Tuesday.
According to sources in customs division, Raj Kumar (35), a resident of Mansa in Punjab, was detained after he deboarded from the IndiGo flight. The customs workforce rummaged the flight and found a packet of gold biscuits. Kumar was arrested but later launched on bail.
The packet was within the type of two strips lined with black material and wrapped with adhesive tape. It contained 20 gold biscuits of 116.5 grams each and every with a complete weight of two.33 kg.
Sources mentioned the accused is a carrier and had positioned the gold within the hollow space. He was about to cross the safety test, when customs sleuths suspected his frame language. On finding gold from the seat on which he was sitting, Kumar confessed to have smuggled the gold, mentioned a customs reliable.
Instances of unclaimed gold being recovered from Dubai flight are changing into commonplace. Reason: the flight will get transformed right into a domestic one after it departs for Delhi. Smugglers go away the gold close to the seat for their gang individuals to take possession at the domestic channel at Delhi, mentioned customs sleuths.
One of the customs officer mentioned, "The unclaimed gold is basically for a passenger who boards the flight from Chandigarh to Delhi or from Delhi to Chennai as the same aircraft is used on the sector. We check the aircraft here in Chandigarh once it arrives from Dubai. Once this aircraft reaches Delhi, passengers de-board and for through domestic channel which has no checking."
According to sources in customs division, Raj Kumar (35), a resident of Mansa in Punjab, was detained after he deboarded from the IndiGo flight. The customs workforce rummaged the flight and found a packet of gold biscuits. Kumar was arrested but later launched on bail.
The packet was within the type of two strips lined with black material and wrapped with adhesive tape. It contained 20 gold biscuits of 116.5 grams each and every with a complete weight of two.33 kg.
Sources mentioned the accused is a carrier and had positioned the gold within the hollow space. He was about to cross the safety test, when customs sleuths suspected his frame language. On finding gold from the seat on which he was sitting, Kumar confessed to have smuggled the gold, mentioned a customs reliable.
Instances of unclaimed gold being recovered from Dubai flight are changing into commonplace. Reason: the flight will get transformed right into a domestic one after it departs for Delhi. Smugglers go away the gold close to the seat for their gang individuals to take possession at the domestic channel at Delhi, mentioned customs sleuths.
One of the customs officer mentioned, "The unclaimed gold is basically for a passenger who boards the flight from Chandigarh to Delhi or from Delhi to Chennai as the same aircraft is used on the sector. We check the aircraft here in Chandigarh once it arrives from Dubai. Once this aircraft reaches Delhi, passengers de-board and for through domestic channel which has no checking."
Chd: Man hides Rs 76L gold on Dubai flight, held
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