Two including 59-year-old man held for smuggling gold at IGIA

A 59-year-old man is among two persons arrested today by the customs for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country gold worth over Rs 66 lakh at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here in separate cases.
In the first case, the accused was intercepted after his arrival from Muscat.
"A detailed personal search of the passenger resulted in recovery of two gold wires total weighing 1.17 kg. The gold wires were coated with silver colour and were concealed beneath the inside metal frame of the check-in baggage," a press release issued by the customs said.
The market value of the seized gold wires works out to be Rs 33.05 lakh, it said, adding the 59-year-old passenger has been arrested.

The customs officials have registered two more cases involving similar modus operandi.
Another man, who had come from Bahrain, was intercepted by the customs officials and his personal search resulted in recovery of three gold wires weighing 1.16 gms. The gold wires, which have been seized, are assessed to be worth Rs 32.99 lakh.

In both these cases, gold weighing 2.33 kgs, valued at Rs 66.04 lakh, was seized.
The customs officials have also seized about 620 gms of gold worth around Rs 16 lakh. The accused in this case was intercepted after his arrival from Jeddah. He had also concealed the gold in form of silver-coated wires.

The customs officials have registered four cases of gold smuggling in past few days and seized yellow metal worth over Rs 1 crore.