Rajasthan: 3 held with gold worth Rs 1.27 crore at Jaipur airport

The DRI is currently interrogating the three passengers and is trying to find out where the gold was brought from and where it was to be transported.

Jaipur: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence arrested three persons with around Rs 1.27 crore worth of gold at the Jaipur International airport in Rajasthan on Sunday. As per officials, 2.5 kg of smuggled gold was recovered by the DRI officials during search of the passengers' luggage following specific inputs. The passengers had landed at the Jaipur airport in an Air Arabia flight.

The DRI is currently interrogating the three passengers and is trying to find out where the gold was brought from and where it was to be transported. Pertinently, on July 1, DRI seized 4.5 kg of smuggled gold at Jaipur airport, which was estimated to be worth around Rs 2.25 crore. Earlier on April 1, the DRI had recovered 1 kg of gold worth Rs 52 lakh.

The passenger had reached Jaipur Junction via train from Delhi. On 26 April, the DRI team had nabbed three gold smugglers at the Jaipur airport, from whose possession gold worth Rs 55 lakh and foreign cigarettes worth Rs 17 lakh were recovered. On 27 April, the DRI team recovered 4 kg gold worth Rs 2 crore from the passenger's luggage at the Jaipur airport.