India flight: Passenger arrested for smuggling gold worth Rs5.8 million from gulf country

Customs at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on Saturday arrested a passenger who tried to smuggle gold worth Rs5.8 million.

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

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The passenger has been arrested under the Customs Act, 1962 and further investigation is underway, it said.

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