67 kg gold misplaced from IGI Airport between Apr-Oct

Government today said 67.4 kg gold was misplaced from the vaults of Customs department at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the current fiscal.

In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Santosh Gangwar said 47 cases of disappearance of gold were reported from IGI Airport having a total quantity of 67.40 kg between April-October 2016.

He further said, in the last three years (2013-14 to 2015-16), 12 cases of disappearance of gold from vaults of Customs department at New Delhi, Mumbai and Trichy Airports were detected. The total quantity involved in the same was 65.39 kg.
 

"FIRs/complaints have been lodged with the police/Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)," Gangwar added.