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Mumbai: The Customs’ Air Intelligence Unit arrested a 40-year-old passenger at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Saturday for smuggling gold into India. The agency said that it seized gold weighing 1.09 kilogram worth ₹63 lakh from him which he was carrying in his recturm in dust format. According to a Customs officer, a trap was laid on the basis …

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A 38-year-old Sudanese national was caught with 535gm of gold paste worth Rs 26.11 lakh hid in capsules inside her rectum at Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport. According to a report published in The Times of India, the woman had arrived from Sharjah on an Air Arabia flight on Tuesday evening. At around 9.30 pm on Tuesday, customs officials on the …

How Customs officials remove gold concealed in the rectum of smugglers

Over the past few months, there have been a great many numbers of gold smuggling cases reported by the customs officials from various parts of the country. Increased number of cases where gold is hidden in the rectum Recently, Customs officials in Chennai recovered 864 grams of gold paste, valued at Rs 45.4 lakhs, from four passengers travelling from Dubai. …

A man was arrested at the Delhi airport upon his arrival from the UAE on Thursday for allegedly smuggling gold bars worth over Rs. 31 lakh that were concealed in his rectum, Customs officials said. Ahmed Washir, who arrived at Terminal-3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport from Dubai by an Air India flight, was intercepted after he had crossed …

Two men have been arrested by customs officials at Delhi airport for allegedly smuggling gold and forex worth lakhs by concealing them in rectum in two separate cases, officials said Monday. A detailed personal and baggage search of the passenger resulted in recovery of six pieces of gold, collectively weighing 1.1 kg, wrapped with black colour adhesive tape concealed in …