Gold Smuggling Foiled at IGI Airport: Smugglers Resort to Astonishing Concealment Methods
Author: BI Bureau
New Delhi: Strange are the ways of the smugglers, as demonstrated in a recent incident at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in Delhi. In a plot that seemed straight out of a thrilling movie, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) surveillance and intelligence staff stationed at Terminal-3 apprehended two gold smugglers attempted to transport a hefty haul of gold in the most unexpected manner possible.
On the basis of suspicious behavior of one visitor in the arrival forecourt area, later identified as Khalid Maksud, the CISF surveillance and intelligence team took action and intercepted Maksud for further questioning. On investigation, Maksud, who lacked any form of identification, confessed to being involved in a gold smuggling operation, waiting to receive the contraband from an international arrival passenger.
The CISF team kept a close watch on Maksud, employing both physical surveillance and sophisticated electronic means to track his movements. On observing him meeting an incoming international passenger, Ranjeet Singh, who had just arrived on an Air Arabia Flight from Sharjah, CISF team sprung into action and nabbed the duo.
During the interrogation, both Maksud and Singh eventually divulged the full extent of their complicity in the gold smuggling operation. However, what truly stunned the authorities was the astonishing method employed to transport the contraband.
Concealed in an unimaginable location, the smugglers had shaped three egg-like pieces of gold into a paste form, weighing approx 810 gms (INR approx 50 lakhs), and secreted them within Singh's rectum.
Both the passenger and the visitor, along with the recovered yellow metal (gold), were subsequently handed over to Customs officials for further investigation and necessary legal actions in the case.
