Mangaluru Int’l Airport Customs officers seize contraband worth over Rs 52 lac

Bellevision Media Network

Mangaluru, 30 Sep 2016: During September 2016, the customs officers at Mangaluru International Airport detected 18 cases of smuggling of contraband goods and recovered 1133.000 grams of gold, foreign currency equivalent to INR 12.74 lac and 236 cartons of foreign cigarettes having no statutory pictorial warning, totally valued over Rs 52 lac.

 

In one major detection, on September 27, the officers recovered about 1.050 kilograms of cylindrical type gold rod valued Rs 32.91 lac which was found concealed in a black coloured hand bag carried by a passenger, who arrived by Air India Flight No IX 814 from Dubai. The passenger was also arrested and remanded to judicial custody. In another case three small gold biscuits and 25 gold coins valued about Rs.2.52 lac found concealed in the hand bag of a passenger were also seized.

 

Besides, foreign currency equivalent to INR 12.74 lac was seized from the possession of 3 passengers departing to Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

 

Thorough profiling of passengers also enabled detection of 13 cases of smuggling of foreign brand cigarettes having no statutory pictorial warnings and 236 cartons of foreign cigarettes valued about Rs 4.25 lac were confiscated.