Customs seize gold worth Rs 1.59 crore at Mangaluru International Airport
Mangaluru, Oct 22: Customs officers at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) have seized 3,124.54 gm of 24 carat purity gold valued at over Rs 1.59 crore from October 8 to 21.
The gold valued at Rs 1,59,66,883 was seized from five male passengers who arrived from Dubai, a customs release here said Saturday.
The gold was smuggled through different modus operandi like concealment in the paste powder form mixed with solid gum inside jeans, trousers and inner wears worn by the passengers.
Concealing the gold in the rectum and through towels dipped into some solution containing gold were other means of smuggling, the release said.
The Customs Officers at MIA seized 3124.540 grams of 24 Carat purity gold valued at Rs.1,59,66,883/- during 08.10.2022 to 21.10.2022 from 5 male passengers arriving from Dubai who attempted to smuggle concealing in Rectum,Towels and Jeans trousers,underwears worn by PAX. pic.twitter.com/kUNR0iXpOB
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Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
Patna (PTI): The body of a Bihar Police personnel was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in his barracks here, a senior officer said on Sunday.
Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Kartikeya Sharma said a havildar with Bihar State Armed Police-1, popularly known as "Gorkha battalion", died allegedly by suicide as he had been suffering from some ailment.
The deceased left behind "two suicide notes", one in Hindi and the other in his native language Nepali.
"From the suicide notes, it appears that Navraj Sunar, the deceased havildar, had been suffering from some ailment which had caused him much mental anguish and may have driven him to take the extreme step," the SSP said.
The body was being sent to the native village of the deceased in Nepal after a post-mortem examination, while further investigations were on, with forensic experts inspecting the site of the incident.
