India flight: Passenger arrested for smuggling gold from Gulf country

Customs at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, arrested a passenger who tried to smuggle gold.

The authority posted on X saying that based on spot profiling, officials apprehended the person who had arrived from a Gulf country.

It added that further investigations are underway.

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Last week, Customs officials had arrested a passenger who tried to smuggle 67 iPhones, also from a Gulf country.

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