India flight: Passenger arrested for smuggling gold worth Dh1.9 million from Oman

Customs at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, on Saturday arrested a passenger who tried to smuggle gold worth Dh1.9 million.

The authority posted on X saying that based on spot profiling, officials apprehended the passenger who had arrived from Muscat, Oman.

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The passenger has been arrested under the Customs Act, 1962 and further investigation is underway, it said.

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On Thursday, customs officials had seized 49,800 cigarettes from a passenger.

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