₹ 43 Lakh Gold In Underwear, Customs Busts Man Back From Sharjah
The Indian national allegedly hid 895.20 gm of gold in paste form in his underwear. Visuals indicate the paste was put into plastic pouches.
Gold worth ₹ 43.55 lakh was recovered from inside the undergarments of a passenger back from Sharjah in the latest gold smuggling case busted by Hyderabad customs team.
The Indian national allegedly hid 895.20 gm of gold in paste form in his underwear. Visuals indicate that the gold paste was put into plastic pouches that were then hidden in the undergarment. A case of smuggling has been registered and further investigation is in progress, the officials said.
Of late, customs officials have busted quite a few smugglers who employed innovative ways to get the precious metal into the country without being detected.
Days back, officials at the Kannur airport in Kerala seized 302 gm of gold worth ₹ 14 lakh. The passenger allegedly tried to smuggle gold in paste form by hiding it between layers of the pair of pants he was wearing.
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