Tamil Nadu: One person was attested at the Chennai airport by the customs department's Air Intelligence Unit, and seized 792 grams of gold, concealed in his two trolly bags, officials said on Monday.
On the basis of intelligence input on Sunday, one passenger who arrived from Dubai by AI-906 was intercepted by Customs officials. Four gold strips concealed in two trolly bags totaling 792 gms in weight and valued at Rs 39.75 lakh were found during an investigation of his checked luggage and were seized in accordance with the Customs Act of 1962 "the Customs division stated.
Customs officers at Chennai Airport also confiscated 2,234 kilos of gold worth Rs. 1.12 crore earlier in the day. While on February 19, customs agents in two different occasions seized more than 1900kg of gold.
In the first instance, officials detained two people who were coming from Dubai and Colombo and discovered 1,002 kilos of gold worth Rs 50.29 lakh during the course of the search.
In the second instance, the Customs department's Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) impounded 900.25 grammes of gold at Kochi Airport, valued at Rs 43 lakhs.
At the green channel, a passenger coming from Sharjah to Kochi Airport was stopped. The official reported, "During the investigation of the aforementioned passenger, 4 capsules of gold in a compound form weighing a total of 900.25 grammes secreted within his body were recovered and seized."
It was the seventh instance of smuggling from Kochi to be reported in the previous five days. Customs agents seized gold worth 20 lakh on February 17. In contrast, three days prior, in a different case A Kasargod native who was coming from Abu Dhabi was detained at the Kochi Airport carrying 857 grammes of gold valued at Rs 43 lakh.
As against the three separate cases in which gold worth Rs. 1.41 crore was confiscated in the two events reported on February 14.
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