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Gold bars worth Rs 1.49 crore retrieved from aircraft toilet in Mumbai

The gold was intercepted by customs officials from the ‘scheduled to depart’ Indigo flight 6E 81.

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The Indigo aircraft that was detained at the Mumbai airport (Photo: Anjali Lukose)

An Indigo flight departing to Muscat was detained by the Mumbai Customs Wednesday evening after 6 kg gold worth Rs 1.49 crore was found in its toilets. While no arrests were made and the aircraft remains detained till Thursday afternoon, this is the first time gold was recovered from a departing aircraft, said customs officials.

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Based on specific inputs, customs officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) intercepted the ‘scheduled to depart’ Indigo flight 6E 81. “Twenty seconds inside the aircraft’s toilets and we took out six bars of gold worth Rs 4.9 crore,” said an official with the Air Intelligence Unit. “The gold was found concealed ‘ingeniously’ behind the wash basin in the three toilets of the aircraft.”

According to officials, that aircraft had made runs on the Dubai-Calicut-Mumbai-Delhi-Kolkata-Bombay-Muscat route but culprits, possibly crew or staff, could not retrieve the gold earlier. “Information was received that the gold was concealed inside the craft when it had arrived from Dubai to Calicut on an earlier leg,” said APS Suri, Commissioner of Customs.

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