CISF recovers 10 gold bars worth Rs 32 lakh from B'deshi national

Kolkata: CISF personnel recovered 10 gold bars weighing about 1 kg, worth approximately Rs 32 lakh from a Bangladeshi woman passenger at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport on Wednesday night.

According to CISF sources, during pre-embarkation security check at Security Hold Area (SHA) of Kolkata Airport, their women personnel noticed presence of metal in the body cavity of a lady passenger.

She was taken to a separate place and on grilling her it was revealed that the passenger was carrying six gold bars in her body cavity. An X-ray screening by ASI Pawan Kumar of CISF detected four gold bars from her baggage.

The woman, identified as Rosiya Begum (37), is a resident of Munshiganj, Dhaka and was supposed to travel from Kolkata to Dhaka by Spicejet flight No. SG-76, which was scheduled to depart at 1.15 am.

The matter was informed to senior officers of CISF and she was handed over to Customs for further legal action.