The DRI seized one kg of gold worth more than Rs 30 lakh from a passenger, coming from Dubai at the Amritsar airport.
Acting on a tip-off, sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized nine biscuits from Amit Kumar, hailing from Amritsar, who was travelling in a flight coming from Dubai on March 29, DRI officials said today.
Nine gold biscuits weighing 116 gram each were concealed in an amplifier, they said.
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"Gold biscuits were concealed in such a way that even the x-ray machines failed to detect them," the officials said.
Besides Kumar, DRI sleuths also arrested a Batala resident named Abhishek Kumar who was at the airport to receive him. Both have been booked under the Customs Act.
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