Gold worth ₹2.22 crore seized at Calicut airport
The Hindu
The Calicut Air Intelligence Unit has seized gold worth ₹2.22 crore from inbound Gulf passengers who tried to smuggle the contraband through the Calicut International Airport in the past two days.Base
The Calicut Air Intelligence Unit has seized gold worth ₹2.22 crore from inbound Gulf passengers who tried to smuggle the contraband through the Calicut International Airport in the past two days.
Based on information from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), the premier intelligence and enforcement agency of the Centre on anti-smuggling matters, Customs officials recovered the gold in four cases. The total market value of seized gold on Thursday was ₹.1.52 crore, officials said.
In one of the cases, gold in compound form weighing 1.005 kg concealed inside the body of Mohammad Avad of Malappuram, who had arrived from Doha, was seized.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.