Three men, including a Jet Airways technician, were arrested in two separate cases for allegedly trying to smuggle gold at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Custom officials disclosed that gold worth Rs 74.79 lakh was seized from them.
It was reported that on Wednesday, the security staff of Jet Airways informed custom officials regarding their technician. A detailed search was conducted and four gold bars weighing 1.3 kg was recovered from the pocket of his pants.
During enquiry, the accused revealed that the gold belonged to one Rahees who had instructed him to hand over the gold bars to a person waiting outside Aerocity metro station near the airport. Later, the person was also arrested by the officials.
In the second case, on the basis of suspicion, a man arriving from Dubai on Wednesday was intercepted by custom officials.
"His personal and baggage search resulted in the recovery of gold in the form of granules mixed with thick liquid, out of which one gold bar weighing 978 gram was extracted," Additional Commissioner of Customs (IGI Airport) Amandeep Singh stated in the official release.