Hyderabad: Based on specific intelligence, officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) intercepted a passenger, who landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on flight 6E-648 from Indore on Saturday midnight.
On checking, it was found that the passenger was carrying foreign-marked gold bars weighing a total of 1996.70 gm valued at Rs 66.27 lakh. The gold bars were concealed in his shoes.
Preliminary investigation suggested that the passenger had retrieved the gold from inside the flight, where it was earlier left behind by another passenger, who was traveling on an international leg from Sharjah to Thiruvananthapuram. The gold was left by the international passenger and retrieved by another passenger during a domestic run of the same flight. The passenger was found to be traveling on a fake name, using a fabricated Aaadhar card and was not carrying any documents to show licit import of the said gold. The smuggled gold was seized under the provisions of Customs Act. (NSS)
