Mangaluru : Officials of Mangalore Air customs seized gold worth Rs 24.44 lakh in the early hours on Sunday at Mangalore International Airport. According to officials, a surveillance team led by Deputy Commissioner of Customs Dr Kapil Gade have profiled and intercepted a passenger by the name Aboobakar Siddiq Pulikoor Mohammed of Kasargod. The passenger had arrived at the […]

Mangaluru : The Customs officials seized foreign currency worth Rs 5,52,678 at Mangalore International Airport on Monday March 1. The passenger who was intercepted is identified as Muzakkir Ahamed Faqui Ameda hailing from Honnavara of Uttara Kannada district. Muzakkir, who was set to travel to Dubai by flight No SG143, tried to smuggle the foreign currency […]

Mangaluru : The Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on Thursday seized gold weighing over 1 kg from two passengers including a woman. The value of the seized gold is Rs 53.5 lakh, a customs release here said. The two were found with 1.103 kg gold in a sanitary napkin, while 0.404 kg gold […]

Mangaluru : Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport  seized 0.8 kg of gold valued at 44.2 lakh from a passenger hailing from Madikeri on Thursday. Joint Commissioner, Customs, Mangaluru, Joannes George said in a statement that based on intelligence inputs, officials intercepted the passenger, Ubaid Baliyath Azeez, after he arrived from Dubai by an Air […]

Mangaluru : The Customs officials seized 2.15 kg of gold worth Rs 1.09 crore at Mangaluru International Airport on Thursday, January 14. The two passengers Faizal Thotty Melparamba (37) and Mohammad Shuhaib Mugu (31) Kasargod residents who arrived on a Air India flight IX 1384 intercepted  and recovered the gold concealed in paste form in underwear. Commissioner of Customs, Imamuddin Ahmed, IRS […]

Mangaluru : The gold worth Rs 32,96,800 from a passenger who arrived by a Spice Jet flight from Dubai seized at Mangaluru International Airport by Customs officials. The 24 carat gold weighed 634 grams. The accused was carrying the gold in powdered form in his body. He has been identified as Aboobakker Siddique of Mangaluru.

Mangaluru : The Customs officials at Mangaluru airport have seized gold valued at Rs 25,45,920 from a passenger in Air India Express flight on October 4. The Passenger who had arrived from Dubai have been concealed inside the heating element of an electric rice cooker. The accused has been identified as Sumesh a resident of Kasargod. […]

Mangaluru : Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport seized 1.575 kg gold valuing over Rs 63 lakh in three separate cases here. On January 6, gold weighing 336.7 grams was found in possession of an inbound air passenger. The passenger who arrived on Air India flight from Dubai had concealed the gold in his socks. […]

Mangaluru : The Customs officials recovered 483.57 grams of gold, valued at ₹ 18.47 lakh, from a passenger at the international airport here on Tuesday, November 18. The passenger is said to have concealed the gold, which is in paste form, in his rectum. The Customs sleuths said that the passenger was checked soon after he […]

Mangaluru: The CISF team at the Mangalore International Airport seized foreign currency from a passenger on Monday. The CISF stated that the incident was reported during the frisking process at the security hold area. The cash was seized from the possession of Shashank Bysani Gupta who was scheduled to travel to Dubai by SpiceJet flight […]