Ludhiana: Customs Commissioner has a great success on Tuesday when his team confiscated 18 Selundup gold biscuits worth Rs 1.03 Crore from leaflets at Chandigarh International Airport in Mohali.
Passenger arrest was announced on Thursday.
The statement issued by the Customs commissioner Ludhiana Vrindaba Gohil suggested that on February 8, a secret input made the team intercepted a male passenger in the green channel after he arrived from Sharjah by Air India Flight IX 188.
Gohil said, “The scanner shows suspicious of goods in a bag His hands, which at the time of checking turned out gold was hidden in a white medical band.
18 Gold biscuits weighed 2,100 grams.
Passengers were arrested under the 1962 Customs Law.
“The Commissioner claimed that in the past month, The Ludhiana Custom Team at Chandigarh International Airport in Chandigarh Mohali has been an extra alert to prevent smuggling of activities.
On January 28, 2022, while searching in the Indian Air Cabin Flight IX 188 arrived from Sharjah, the team found a recording bag hidden in the toilet cavity on the right side of the back door.
This bag carries 220,840 grams of Gold worth 10.83 lakh.
It was extracted and confiscated as not claimed assignments and a penalty worth Rs 1.83 lakh recovered from him ..