Customs Officers of AIU Seize 1.6 Kg Gold at MIA
Mangaluru: The Customs officers of Air Intelligence Unit and the batch officers at MIA, have busted a unique modus operandi of gold smuggling by three passengers by way of concealment in the rectum. The three passengers had arrived from Dubai by Air India and Jet Airways flights on June 8.
The officers, on careful profiling and screening, shortlisted the three passengers who were subjected to thorough interrogation. During the interrogation, the officers unearthed the details of smuggling by way of body concealment. The contraband gold in the form of rectangular cut pieces of gold bars totally weighing 1660.750 grams valued about Rs 49.15 lakhs was packed in carbon paper and black coloured adhesive tape and in turn brought by way of concealment in the rectum. All the three passengers hail from Ullasnagar, Thane, Maharastra.
Out of the three, two passengers who had worked as a gang were arrested and produced before the magistrate who remanded them to judicial custody.
Due to several detections of contraband concealed in conventional items at Mangaluru airport, the smugglers are now adopting new modus operandi to smuggle in the contraband by way of body concealment to hoodwink the department. However, the officers equipped with advance passenger information are able to profile and zero in on to suspected passengers who are subjected to detailed inquiry and examination.
Further investigations are under progress.
“Three passengers….” – Report without naming these ‘passengers’.
Smiles…How long will our thick-skinned society continue to hide truth and live in denial? Well, we will see. Unsustainable things don’t last forever and they are bound to fail. Satyameva jayathe.