Ina

gold

Customs

Dubai

Air Intelligence

Indira Gandhi International Airport

Gujarat

RTI

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport

Unique

first-of-its-kind plan, 16 kg ofwas found concealed in baby diapers and towels byofficials at Delhi airport and six passengers from Surat nabbed. The passengers coming fromwere caught by theunit of Customs department at(IGI) of Delhi with the 16 gold bars. This consignment withconnection is the largest so far this year.According to a Customs official, “The sixteen gold bars weighing one kg each were found cleverly concealed in the diapers and towels of the two babies they were carrying. The two groups from Surat comprised two couples with a baby each.” The city airport has seen at least a dozen gold smuggling cases this year. To anquery, the Customs replied that of the 26 smuggling cases filed at city airport, 12 are related gold, while the others are related to silver or diamond smuggling. As per a source, about 18 kg of gold has been seized in the 12 different cases. Of these, eight cases emanated from one specific low cost flight directly from Dubai that arrives at 2.45 am at. So far no link has been found between today’s seizure at Delhi airport and previous seizures in the city as it is initial stage of investigation, a Customs official said.In the past, gold has been found to be concealed in home appliances like vacuum cleaner, mixture grinder. The gold was concealed in the machine’s coil or wires. In other cases, passengers were found to have concealed gold in trolley bag handles, footwear and even CPU of computer, while hiding gold bars in rectum has been found to be a common practice.