Rs 6.4cr gold, weed seized at Mumbai airport
The Airport Commissionerate of the Mumbai Customs on Sunday intercepted two persons on suspicion, and found that one of them, a transit passenger, had allegedly handed over 1,510 gm of gold dust in wax, worth Rs 1.39 crore, to an airport staffer, an official said.
The airport staffer admitted that he had collected four packs of 24 KT gold dust from a passenger, he said.
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In another seizure, a passenger who landed from Bangkok on Monday was apprehended with hydroponic weed worth Rs 5 crore, the official said.
He said that the contraband was concealed in vacuum-sealed plastic packets kept inside the passenger's trolley bag.
The traveller was arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, he said. PTI
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