Airline staffer held for smuggling gold biscuits

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 16

The CISF apprehended two persons, including one staffer working for an airline at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, for allegedly trying to smuggle gold biscuits worth more than Rs 31 lakh today, an official said.

Mohd. Javed, a passenger service assistant with an airline, was apprehended after he was found moving suspiciously by CISF officials at Terminal-3, he said.

He was intercepted inside a bathroom and nine gold biscuits weighing more than 1 kg were seized from him, the official said.

The airport employee, who holds a valid aerodrome entry pass, disclosed that he got the biscuits from a passenger coming from Dubai and he was supposed to hand it over to another man waiting in the arrival area outside the terminal.

While the passenger suspected to have smuggled the gold biscuits could not be nabbed, the man waiting to receive it from Javed was apprehended by a CISF team.