Mumbai, May 3 : The Customs department has seized electronic items, cosmetics, cigarettes and crude gold cumulatively worth more than Rs 1.79 crore from passengers arriving at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport from Dubai, resulting in the arrest of one person, an official said on Sunday.
The operation was conducted by the Airport Commissionerate of Customs between May 1 and 2, he added.
“Two separate cases were registered against two passengers based on spot profiling. They had arrived by Emirates flight with smuggled items like electronic items, cosmetic goods, cigarette valued at Rs 84.37 lakh. In another case, eight brown-tape-wrapped packets were recovered from the commode of both rear-end aircraft lavatories after detailed rummaging,” he said.
He said 695 grams of 24 karat crude gold worth Rs 95.32 lakh was seized from one passenger who had arrived in a SpiceJet flight. The man has been arrested, the official added.
The seizures highlight ongoing vigilance against smuggling through passenger profiling at the Mumbai airport, he said.
