Two Vande Bharat Mission passengers caught with 2kg gold at India airport | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

Two Vande Bharat Mission passengers caught with 2kg gold at India airport | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

Kerala

Two passengers coming from Dubai were caught with 2.28kg gold at Kannur airport on Tuesday.

According to a report by UNI, the two passengers arrived at the Kannur International Airport on a GoAir flight organised under the Vande Bharat Mission.

A team led by a senior Customs official detained Ismail Meethale Kunnathu and Javed Yousef, residents of Kadavathur in Kannur district, and Narampady in Kasargod district respectively.

The Customs seized 1,316-gram gold valued at Rs6.67 million from Ismail in the form of paste hidden inside polythene covers which were wrapped around his ankles.

Over 972-gram gold valued at Rs5 million was seized from Javed, which had hidden the precious metal in his underwear in capsule form, said the UNI report.