Lucknow Airport Sees Dramatic Escape By ‘Suspected Smugglers’

Six of the passengers informed officers that they had been carrying gold.

Lucknow:

Thirty individuals who had been detained on the Lucknow airport for allegedly smuggling gold into the nation escaped after one in all them pretended to fall sick and create chaos, officers stated.

Customs and police officers have launched a search operation to nab the accused, they stated.

Further Deputy Commissioner of Police Shashank Singh stated officers of the Directorate of Income Intelligence and the Customs Division on Monday stopped 36 passengers from Sharjah on the Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport right here.

When the officers frisked them, cigarettes value greater than Rs 3 crore and money value Rs 23.90 lakh had been seized from a few of them, Singh stated.

Six of the passengers informed officers that they had been carrying gold, he stated.

On Tuesday, when the remaining 30 passengers had been being questioned, one in all them pretended to be in poor health and created chaos. Making the most of this, all of them fled, the officer stated.

A case has been registered underneath related sections on the criticism within the matter, and efforts are being made to arrest the accused, he added.

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