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4 held at Delhi airport with foreign currency worth Rs 59 lakh

New Delhi News: All the passengers along with one visitor and the recovered cash were handed over to the Customs officials for further action into the matter.

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Updated Jun 30, 2022, 00:37 IST

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New Delhi: Four men were caught by the CISF personnel at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in Delhi for allegedly trying to smuggle foreign currency with a face value of 59 lakh, officials said on Wednesday.

At around 11.20 pm, based on behaviour detection, surveillance and intelligence staff of the IGI airport noticed the suspicious activities at 'B' Gate area of Terminal-3, said a senior CISF official as reported by IANS.

Two passengers identified as Subhan Ahmed and Jasvinder Singh were marked as "suspicious". They had come to the IGI to board a Chandigarh-bound flight.

The officials checked the CCTV footage of their entire movement after they grew suspicious of them. The CCTV footage revealed that Ahmed first approached the J row of the check-in counter and checked in one bag on Dubai-bound Emirates Airlines flight and collected his boarding pass.

Then, as per the CCTV footage, he went to the washroom and after changing his dress, he reached at B row check-in counter and collected his boarding pass for the Chandigarh-bound Vistara Airlines flight.

Subhan Ahmed’s accomplice Jasvinder Singh during tactful questioning by the officials revealed that the former was carrying a high volume of foreign currency and due to fear of being caught, he changed his destination from Dubai to Chandigarh, reported IANS.

Singh also confessed that he checked in one bag of Ahmed in his name.

Subsequently, physical checking of the bags of both the passengers was carried out following which the official recovered 1,20,000 Saudi Riyals concealed between the middle layer of the hand bag of Ahmed and 99,740 Saudi Riyals and $15,200 hidden between the outer and inner layer of a tiffin box, which was kept in the bag of Singh.

Later, while examining the CCTV footage, two more suspects- Azim and Imran Ahmed were intercepted by the CISF personnel. While the former was nabbed from the departure area, the latter was bound for Mumbai by Indigo Airlines flight and was caught from the B Gate area.

All the passengers along with one visitor and the recovered cash were handed over to the Customs officials for further action into the matter, as per IANS report.

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