Kathmandu, April 6 -- The Metropolitan Police Airport Security Office confiscated 5,814.65 grams of gold from four Indian nationals, including three women, from a parking area at the Tribhuvan International Airport, on Thursday.

According to the airport security office, Jatin Jain (aged 19), Sunita (44), Babita Garg (41), and Sarita Jain (46) had smuggled the gold undetected through customs. All four had entered Nepal from Bangkok via Flight Number SL 220 of Thai Lion Air.

"All the individuals had iron-coated the gold jewellery. They smuggled the gold undetected through the airport customs," Senior Superintendent of Police Sandip Bhandari, chief of the airport security office, told the Post. "But we arrested them from the parking area f...