Kejriwal moves court against trial court summons

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday moved the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of summons issued by a trial court in a complaint case that alleged he gave false information to the poll panel in his affidavit in the run-up to the 2013 assembly polls.

The trial court had issued summons to Kejriwal in February last year on a criminal complaint filed by Neeraj Saxena and Anuj Agarwal on behalf of an NGO, noting that the chief minister had prima facie “wilfully concealed” and “suppressed” details.

Justice IS Mehta issued notice and sought the complainant’s response in the matter. It asked Saxena and Agarwal, the private complainants, to file their replies by August four. HTC

Customs officials on Saturday arrested a 63-year-old man who was trying to use wheelchair as cover to smuggle gold at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA).

The passenger had arrived from Dubai by a Jet airways flight and was stopped by customs officials after the green channel.

“We had information about two passengers smuggling gold from Dubai. These two passengers, one was on wheelchair and the other assisting him, were zeroed in. It was a sensitive case as the passenger was on wheelchair. He was walking fine when he was asked to and that raised our suspicion,” said an official.

During interrogation, he admitted carrying gold. Four gold bars were kept in the pockets of a specially prepared short he was wearing under his trousers and tied up with a rope. The passenger, who is from Pondicherry, was to travel to Chennai.

“A total of 3.5 kgs of gold worth ₹93 lakh was recovered from them. Both passengers were arrested under the Customs Act,” the official added.

Customs officials said this was the first case of a passenger misusing a wheelchair to smuggle.

On Thursday, a passenger coming from Riyadh and an airport employee were arrested for smuggling gold. The passenger had smuggled 2.7 kgs of gold worth ₹80 lakh and handed it over to the employee in the washroom.

The employee was supposed to smuggle it out of the airport but both were caught after the green channel.