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Mangaluru: Customs seize gold biscuits worth Rs 33.80 lac hidden under flight seat

  •   Mon, Sep 28 2020 07:54:20 AM

Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (MS)

Mangaluru, Sep 28: In a quick operation carried out by the Customs intelligence department at the Mangaluru International Airport, gold biscuits, which were hidden under the seat on the IndiGo flight that arrived from Dubai, were confiscated on Sunday September 28.

The value of the six gold biscuits confiscated by the custom sleuths is around Rs 33.80 lac.

It is suspected that someone was trying to illegally ferry the gold biscuits.

Customs officials are on the search for the individual behind this attempt. This flight had arrived from Dubai and was to proceed to Hyderabad after halt at Mangaluru International Airport.

 

 

 
  

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  • Rita, Germany

    Tue, Sep 29 2020

    I am sure there was some handwork from airways personal.In the past too they helped to carry this edel metal. Someone brought in Dubai ,kept under the seat was supposed to be on the way to Hyderabad.Inbetween someone spoiled the whole mission.How come our customs got the smell of this?Some fly ?

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    We only hope this money doesn't reach PM Care Funds ...

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  • Praveen, mangalore

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    Correctly said Jossey, I wonder then how much money congress made of this. They ruled so many years right? now don't say in congress period there was no PM care fund

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  • Kiran, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    This was kept underneath the specific seat by Dubai passenger or probably a cleaning staff at Dubai Airport so that person who booked the seat behind and traveling to Hyderabad can collect and exit the airport without customs as a domestic passenger .( Interrogate the Hyderabad Bound passenger or may be the cleaning staff there )

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  • Harsh, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    The individual may have been on a Passport with a different name and in his usual safe haven of Kasargod. The passport may have even reached Dubai for someone else to travel in the same manner. No prizes for guessing.

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  • Evans C. Sumitra, Udupi/ New York, USA.

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    My hats off to customs intelligence department at Mangalore International airport. This seizure of gold biscuits hidden under the flight seat is rather strange. Well operated.

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  • DP, Boston

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    You are gullible. Did you ever wonder how this information was known to customs and that too a particular place and time?..........
    They do not have and "airplane scanning machine" to get this information in a jiffy when they are there for only 30-45 minutes between flights!!

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  • rampa, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    How they came to know about this ? any idea?

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  • Bala K, Urwa

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    Sapna Suresh alias....gang in red seems to be still active.

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  • Sachidananda Shetty, Mundkur/Dubai

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    We Indians.... really very very difficult to understand our own people....

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  • Monty Dotor, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    The surprising thing is "TOLAS"is written on the gold biscuits,it is a word which is used mainly in India for weight measurements. Probably havala rather than smuggling.

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  • Alex, Mangalore

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    In the Gulf ( Middle East ), Gold is sold in 10 tola bars, 100 gm, 10 gms and 1 gm biscuits.
    There are bars for even 1 kg, which is rarely bought by customers, rather than by jewelers.

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  • H. Almeida., Bendur/Andheri

    Mon, Sep 28 2020

    Wow !! Certainly a new innovation of smuggling gold n possibly narcotics into India.

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