DRI seizes 9.96 kg gold in Kolkata airport, nabs one
According to reports, DRI officials and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel intercepted a person, soon after he arrived at NSCBI airport from Aizawl in Mizoram onboard a Jet Airways flight (9W-624) on Thursday afternoon, and made the huge seizure.
"We detained a 27-year-old man from Mizoram, Zonunsanga, and seized 6 gold bars, weighing 1.66 kg each, from his back pack," a DRI official told IBNS. "The market value of the gold bars is approximately Rs. 3 crore."
Later, the person was arrested under Section 104 of the Customs Act.
"During preliminary interrogation, Zonunsanga, a well educated alumni of Delhi University, admitted that he was smuggling gold bars into India from Myanmar via Mizoram," the DRI official added.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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