Couple caught with 25kg of gold hidden on them
This is one of the biggest seizures of gold in Gujarat made by the Ahmedabad customs commissionerate.
The couple, Viral and Dolly Dholakia, both residents of the Kosad area of the city, were arrested and produced in court on Tuesday. The court sent them to judicial custody. They arrived at the city airport on Air India Express Flight IX-174 from Dubai. Officials of the AIU and CISF noticed suspicious activity after which they were checked thoroughly.
"Acting on passenger profiling and surveillance conducted by customs officers of the AIU, Surat unit, two passengers arriving from Dubai were intercepted by the AIU team at the arrivals hall. The passengers were under watch based on suspicious movement patterns and technical profiling inputs gathered by Surat customs. During this monitoring, corroborative inputs from CISF personnel about one of the passengers reinforced the suspicion.
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Accordingly, both passengers were subjected to a personal search," a statement from the customs department said.
On searching both passengers, 28.1kg of gold in paste form was recovered, which was ingeniously concealed within modified jeans, trousers, inner garments, handbags and footwear. The operation led to the recovery of 24.83kg of gold, valued at Rs 25.57 crore in the domestic market.
The modus operandi used points to the adoption of advanced body concealment techniques to carry out gold smuggling. During frisking, officials found some material under their clothes in various sizes and shapes. They tried to keep the gold paste in pouches shaped according to body parts, so they were not easily noticed.
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