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Five caught smuggling camel teeth at Mumbai airport

25 Jan 2015 01:58:37

mid-day.com

It seems that the International Terminal these days is seeing commodities other than gold being smuggled. But their find on Thursday is something even the security officials there might have never guessed they would see. On Thursday, the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Mumbai Customs caught a few people trying to smuggle 180 kg of camel teeth.


At about 10 pm during the queue security check, the camel teeth were noticed by Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) security staff Santosh. He informed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Customs.


The consignment was kept in eight bags that were later confiscated by AIU Officials. After the bags were confiscated, the five passengers they belonged to were offloaded.


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