Woman passenger held at Mangaluru International Airport with gold worth Rs 36.43 lakh
Mangaluru, Dec 16: Customs officials at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on Thursday seized 739 gm of gold from a woman passenger, who arrived here from Dubai.
The passenger arrived here by an Air India flight, customs sources said.
The woman is a resident of Talangere in Kasaragod district of Kerala. The seized gold of 24 karat is valued at Rs 36,43,270.
The passenger had concealed the gold in paste form in a grey paper in her innerwear, the sources said.
24 carat purity gold of net wt 739 grams & valued at ₹36.43 lakhs seized at MIA on 16.12.2021.@cbic_india@blrcustoms pic.twitter.com/zmfSlqk2tN
— Customs-Mangaluru (@Cusmglr) December 16, 2021
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7 held for running fake call centre in South Kolkata
Kolkata (PTI): Seven people were arrested from the Parnashree area in the southern part of the city for allegedly running a fake call centre, a police officer said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house on Netaji Subhas Road on Friday night and found the fake call centre operating from the ground floor, he said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had set up a bogus company using forged documents and posed as employees of an antivirus firm to call citizens in the US, the officer said.
"The callers would gain the trust of victims and then use remote access to take control of their phones or other digital devices. The accused allegedly siphoned off large sums of money, running into millions of dollars, from victims' accounts," he said.
Five laptops, two WiFi routers, six mobile phones and four headsets were seized from the accused, he said, adding that the seven are being questioned to ascertain the full extent of the racket and to identify others involved.
