In three separate seizures, at the Mumbai international airport on Tuesday, the Mumbai Custom’s Air Intelligence Unit have arrested four persons- including three foreigners and an Indian woman with gold worth Rs 1.27 crore. According to the AIU officials, in the first seizure, they arrested an Indian national woman who arrived from Dubai with four gold bars totally weighing 466 gm worth Rs.13 lakh. The woman who had arrived from Dubai had concealed the gold bars in her rectum. While in another seizure the AIU officials arrested two Yemeni nationals who had arrived from Dubai with 24 carats gold bars weighing 2916 gm worth Rs 81 lakh. The said gold bars were concealed in specially created pockets in their pajamas and jeans. While in the third incident, the AIU officials intercepted a wheelchair-bound Iranian woman who had arrived from Tehran with her three family members. During her personal search, the AIU official found 4 chrome color plated gold chains and 2 gold kadas totally weighing 1600 gm worth Rs 33 lakh that she had concealed underneath her clothes. In another incident, the AIU officials found 600 unattended gram of chrome coloured gold cut piece lying on the floor at the arrival hall. The AIU is still ascertaining the ownership of this gold.

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