Gold bangles worth Rs.33 lakh seized at Shamshabad airport

Customs officials of the Air Intelligence Unit seized 10 gold bangles of foreign origin weighing 1047 grams at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad here on Monday.

The cost of the seized gold is Rs.32.87 lakh. Officials intercepted two passengers



including a woman when they came from Kuwait on a Jazeera flight.

One passenger had concealed four gold bangles inside the front inner pocket of his trousers while the woman concealed the remaining gold bangles on her body, officials said.