The woman was recognized as Shaula (19) and is a resident of The police arrested her outside the airport based on a tip-off and recovered gold weighing 1.884 kg hidden in her undergarment.
A Kerala girl managed to dodge customs officials and airport security while smuggling gold worth Rs 1 crore.
The woman had arrived at or Cali cut Airport from Dubai on Sunday.
The woman was recognized as Shaula (19) and is a resident of significant difference in gold prices between India and Dubai has encouraged is smuggling from the United Arab Emirates. While many smugglers often get caught, some managed to escape. In one such instance, a Kerala girl managed to dodge customs officials and airport security while smuggling gold worth Rs 1 crore. The woman had arrived at or Cali cut Airport from Dubai on Sunday.
The woman was recognized as Shaula (19) and is a resident of The police arrested her outside the airport based on a tip-off and recovered gold weighing 1.884 kg hidden in her undergarment. The gold was found in three packets. Shaula arrived at the airport on Air India Express flight at 10:30 PM. She was arrested by the city police after she left the airport following customs clearance.
The woman initially denied smuggling gold. And police could not find anything from her baggage. However, the gold was found in three packets sewn into her undergarments.
The police are interrogating her to find out more details and the names of the people for whom she worked. The seized gold will be submitted to the court along with a detailed report to customs for further investigation. This is the 87th case of gold smuggling caught by the police outside the Cali cut airports
Gold smuggling has one of the big sources of income for smugglers and there seems to be a big racket behind it. Today, the CILF nabbed an international passenger attempting to smuggle gold in paste form weighing about 6.452 kg (worth approx Rs 3.20 crore) by passing it over to a domestic passenger at the Mumbai Airport. The CILF handed over both passengers to customs.
CILF had nabbed another international passenger who was attempting to smuggle gold dust weighing about 1.2 kg by passing it over to a domestic passenger from a glass bifurcation between boarding gates at Mumbai Airport.
police checked her luggage and interrogated her for hours
Dec 26: A 19-year-old girl was taken into custody outside the Kozhikode airport after it was found that she was carrying gold worth Rs one crore hidden in her inner wear.
Acting on a tip off, Malappurram Superintendent of Police (SP) Suchith Das and his team took the girl into custody after she had successfully cleared the Customs at the airport late on Sunday night.
Later on body examination, 1,884 grams of gold worth Rs one crore was found hidden in three packets attached to her undergarment.
The girl, Shahla, hailing from Kasargode arrived at the Kozhikode international airport from Dubai.
After getting through Customs, the girl was taken into custody by police outside the airport.
Initially, she resisted all the questioning and claimed that she was no carrier and she should be let off.
But the police, who were acting on a tip off, were not willing to let her go and their efforts turned futile after thoroughly inspecting her entire luggage.
It was after that she was subjected to a body examination and it turned out to be successful as gold to the tune of 1,884 grams of gold worth Rs one crore was hidden in three packets and was stuck to her undergarment.
The police then started a detailed probe into the gold smuggling to find out the real culprit, who enticed the teenager to carry gold.
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