Gold worth Rs 1.08 crore seized at MIA in February
Mangaluru, Mar 17: Customs officials at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) confiscated 1,913 gm of gold that was illegally transported from overseas countries to India from February 16 to 28.
The value of the confiscated gold is Rs 1.08 crore, a customs release said here on Friday. The gold was seized from the possession of six male passengers and a female passenger.
The gold was hidden in clothes, rectum and mouth by the passengers to avoid detection by Customs officials.
The gold was smuggled through different modus operandi such as concealment in paste form within a double layered shirt, inside rectum and by pasting under feet. One woman passenger had concealed gold in paste form inside the waistband of the trousers worn by her. Gold was also found concealed in the oral cavity of one male passenger.
Further investigation is in progress, the release said.
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Leopard spotted in Bengaluru's Electronic city captured
Bengaluru, Sept 25: A four-year-old male leopard was caught in a trap in Electronic city area here, over a week after it was spotted roaming in the tech hub, forest officials said on Wednesday.
After a CCTV footage of the leopard crossing a flyover near a toll plaza went viral, the residents of Electronic city were put on high alert. Ever since the animal was spotted, the forest officials were on toes trying to capture the big elusive cat.
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"We laid a trap for the past four to five days. However, it did not fall into it. Since two days, we had erected 'Tumkur trap cage' (which is like a big enclosure) so, leopard would walk in with its big tail inside the cage and get trapped inside the big enclosure. That is how we caught the leopard on Tuesday night," Deputy Conservator of Forest (DCF), Bengaluru Urban Ravindra Kumar told PTI.
According to officials, the leopard was caught in an open area in Electronic city, where the trap was laid.
The leopard is healthy and has been shifted to Bannerghatta Biological Park from where it will be released later.
#Karnataka: A week after a male leopard was spotted roaming around Electronic City, the #Bengaluru’s Forest officials managed to catch the elusive wild cat in the morning hours on Wednesday.
— South First (@TheSouthfirst) September 25, 2024
The leopard was trapped in a cage that was set up for the forest officials to catch it… pic.twitter.com/E0BpdL0hmQ
