Mumbai, May 21 -- The officers at Airport Commissionerate, Mumbai, Zone-III, made a seizure of GOLD weighing 0.247 Kg valued at Rs. 21.96 Lakh during the night duty of 20/21 May, 2025. These seizures were made across two cases and foreign currency equivalent to Rs 76.23 Lakh was recovered in one case. One passenger was also arrested under the the Customs Act, 1962, said a release from the Ministry of Finance.

According to the release, based on profiling, the customs officers intercepted two passengers arriving from Bahrain and Daman and recovered 24 KT Gold Bar having a net weight of 247 Grams, valued at Rs. 21.96 Lakh on May 21, 2025, early morning. The said gold was concealed under the luggage trolley advertisement sticker.

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