Mangaluru: Mangaluru Regional Unit of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized 1166.500 gram gold bars with current market value of Rs.34, 17,845. The bars made up of 24 carat purity gold.

Specific information received by this unit reveled that some passenger (whose identity was not clearly known) who had arrived by Spicejet Flight No.SG60 from Dubai on November 3 at about 18.00 hours had dropped a packet containing gold of foreign origin brought by him inside one of the toilets situated next to the immigration area of international arrivals with a plan that the said packet containing gold would be retrieved later on by some cleaning staff having access to the said toilet.

Acting on the said information, the officers of directorate of revenue intelligence, Mangaluru regional unit rushed to the airport immediately and conducted a thorough search of the said toilets and during the course of the search operation, a small packet containing some metal objects wrapped in black insulation tapes was recovered from a drainage outlet of one of the toilets. On opening the said packet, the same was found to contain ten gold tola bars of foreign origin.