B'luru airport: Cash and gold worth Rs1cr seized

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Customs officials at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) seized cash amounting to Rs 51.9 lakh and gold weighing over 824 grams from passengers in separate cases.

The officers of the Air Customs at the KIA intercepted two passengers on the night of February 29 and March 1 based on the profiling and surveillance.

Among the two arrested, one was an Indian citizen while the other was a Thailand national, the officials said.

The officials seized cash of Rs 51,95,500 in Rs 500 dominations from an Indian citizen, who was allegedly attempting to smuggle Indian currency to Kualalumpur by flight OD-242.

The officials claimed that the passenger had concealed the cash in a hand baggage as well as the checked-in baggage. In another instance, gold in paste form weighing 824.67 gm was seized from a passenger who arrived from Dubai.

The value of the seized gold is said to be Rs 50,79, 967. Cases have been registered in both cases and further investigation is under way. The passenger arrived from Dubai in Indigo flight 6E-1486, the officials added.