Hyderabad: Rs 6.5L worth gold seized at RGIA

Hyderabad: Customs officials of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport seized  216 grams of gold valued at around '6.5 lakhs on Tuesday night from a passenger arriving from Muscat. The arrest was made based on profiling of the passengers by the customs officers of the Air Intelligence Unit at the  RGIA, Shamshabad.

“The passenger had arrived from Muscat to Hyderabad by the Oman Airways flight on Tuesday. He concealed two gold bars by attaching them to mobile battery on both sides. He then wrapped it with a grey coloured tape and kept it in a mobile box and passed through the green channel with an intention to evade payment of customs duty,” said the officials.  Further investigations are under progress.