India, Feb. 28 -- A 56-year-old man was arrested at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport for attempting to smuggle over 170gm gold by concealing it inside dates in his luggage, officials said on Thursday.

Customs officers said they recovered gold worth Rs.15 lakh after individually inspecting several kilogrammes of dates he had brought from Jeddah.

In two other cases, customs officials arrested an Indian man for smuggling gold worth Rs.1.3 crore in paste form and two Thai women attempting to smuggle marijuana worth Rs.27 crore.

In the first case, officials of the customs department said the man had arrived on a flight from Jeddah on Wednesday evening and was intercepted by a team at the exit, on the basis of spot profiling...