DELHI: Customs officials at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) arrested a woman on Wednesday for trying to smuggle in gold worth more than Rs. two crore.
The woman passenger, a resident of Poland who was coming to Delhi from Singapore was first apprehended on suspicion. The customs officials recovered gold weighing 8.8 kg from her, the market rate of which is well above Rs. two crore.
“The passenger had concealed the gold in a specially designed belt that she had worn around her waist,” said Vinayak Azaad, Additional Commissioner of Customs at the IGI Airport.
The IGI Airport has been witnessing a spurt in the cases of gold smuggling and customs officials have increased surveillance at the airport to keep a check on the illegal smuggling of the precious metal.
