Customs officials at Kempegowda International Airport have seized gold worth ₹95 lakh this week. According to a press release from the Additional Commissioner of Customs, officials foiled three attempts to smuggle gold.
The first incident was on Sunday night, when gold weighing 199 gm and worth ₹60 lakh was recovered from a flight that had arrived from Singapore. The gold was wrapped in black insulating tapes and kept inside a cabin luggage that had been abandoned in the aircraft.
The second incident was when officials seized gold worth ₹28.43 lakh weighing 895 gm. The passenger, Kannada Kathlasleem Arif, 21, had arrived from Dubai. The gold was concealed in the form of foils in corrugated boxes used for wrapping toys.
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In the third incident, a passenger named Mohammed Talib Ahmed was found with 223 gm of gold in his rectum.
According to the press note, in another case 135 cigarettes worth ₹4 lakh were seized on Monday from a passenger named Allah Baksh who had arrived from Kuala Lumpur.