MUMBAI: The airport Customs seized gold bars worth Rs3.3 million from CPU and handle of a cooking pan at international airport and arrested two smugglers.
As per details, the two smugglers were trying to smuggle the gold in the country after concealing it inside a computer CPU and a cooking pan.
A passenger, Hiren Chauhan, was travelling on Indian passport and he was intercepted at the airport after in-line screening machine indicated that he had concealed gold in his baggage. During the examining the Customs officials recovered 10 gold bars, 116 GMs each worth Rs 27.88 lakhs from him.
Commissioner of Customs (airport) A P S Suri stated that Chauhan arrived from Dubai and he had concealed 1.11 kg gold bars inside a transformer of a desktop CPU.
