2 arrested for trying to smuggle in two kg gold

The Customs department has arrested two women at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in Delhi for allegedly trying to smuggle in more than two kg of gold by hiding it in their rectum.

Besides them, two men have also been arrested for their involvement in the smuggling. The accused persons had adopted a unique modus operandi. All the four persons have been arrested.

Both the men hail from Ulhasnagar in Mumbai had travelled to Bangkok to got the gold consignment from one of their

◗ Gold weighing 2.4 kg, having a market value of `71.64 lakh, were seized from the rectum of the women passengers

contacts. The police said that from Bangkok, one of them came to Thiruvananthapuram, while another landed in Chennai via Mauritius, a department official said.

The accused boarded separate flights to New Delhi along with the women accomplices.

The precious metal was handed over to the women during the flights to the capital from Thiruvananthapuram and Chennai.

The women concealed 1.2 kg gold each inside their rectum in the toilet of the plane, the official claimed. The women were arrested at the Delhi’s IGI airport by the customs department officials on Monday.

“On detailed examination and personal search, 12 pieces of gold weighing 2.4 kg (1.2 kg from each from the women passengers), which have a market value of `71.64 lakh, were recovered from the rectum of both the women passengers,” a customs department statement said.