This Article is From Mar 23, 2010

Mumbai: 4 held at airport for smuggling memory cards

Mumbai: Air Intelligence unit of Mumbai Customs arrested four persons at the Mumbai airport on the charge of smuggling digital memory cards worth Rs 52 lakh and produced them before a court on Monday which remanded them to five days custody.

The accused, Rajinder Singh, Balvinder Singh, Kuldip Singh and Rajbir, had arrived in Mumbai on an Air India flight from Delhi early Sunday morning, a Customs official said.

One of them had arrived in Delhi from Hong Kong while the rest joined him there, the official said.

"They were detained while attempting to get past the green signal without declaring their goods," he added.

During the search, digital memory cards worth Rs 52 lakh were recovered from them, the official said, adding, subsequently all four accused were arrested under the Customs Act.
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