Mangaluru: Airport Customs Seize gold worth over Rs 16 Lac form woman passenger

Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 19 Dec 2014: On a tip off given by the Immigration Authorities of Mangalore International Airport, the officers of customs at Mangalore International Airport intercepted a lady passenger and seized from her possession, gold ornaments weighing 749.900 grams valued at over Rs 16 lac brought by her in a concealed manner.

 

 

 

The gold ornaments packed in 2 rectangular shaped packets wrapped in adhesive tape, were found concealed in the waist portion underneath the denim jeans trousers worn by her inside burkha.  The passenger, named forty-one-year-old Nazneen Banu Mahfooz Qureshi, wife of Mahfooz Ayyub Qureshi is a resident of Mumbai having address at Room No 21, 3rd Floor, 166, Bunder Building, J B Shah Marg, Khadak, Mumbai – 400 009, who arrived at Mangalore International Airport on Friday December 19 at about 0830 hrs by Air India Express flight number IX814 from Dubai.

 

The said lady passenger was later arrested and produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate for remand to judicial custody.