AMRITSAR : Customs officials recovered gold worth ₹68 from a passenger who arrived at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport in Amritsar.
A spokesperson of Amritsar customs said: “Our staff intercepted a passenger who landed at the Amritsar airport from Dubai on Tuesday morning. The passenger had concealed two packets of gold paste in his turban.”
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“The packets were wrapped with grey adhesive tapes. The gross weight of two packets was 1,632 grams (813+819gm each). After extraction, 1,159 grams of 24 carat gold was recovered having a market value of ₹68,67,654.”
The gold was seized under Section 110 of the Customs Act.