Rajasthan / 21 lakh gold hidden in juicer maker's motor, caught at Jaipur airport

Jaipur: A case of gold smuggling has been caught at Jaipur Airport on Tuesday. Here, a young man had brought gold hidden under the metal under the motor of the mixer (a yogurt and shake-making desert maker). The custom caught him in the morning while checking. The weight of gold is around 461 grams and the price is 21.36 lakh rupees. The department has arrested the young man while seizing the gold.

Additional Commissioner of Customs ML Shera said that the young man caught is 23 years old. He is a resident of Dwarka Gujarat. Performs the loading-unloading of goods on the ship in Dubai. In Dubai, a person gave him this machine and said that a person will meet you at the airport, he will recognize you. Will take the machine from you and will also give 1000 rupees in return. The same person also got the young man an air ticket.

A machine bitten when in doubt

After arriving at the Jaipur airport early Tuesday, when the luggage was checked, the machine was detected in the trolley bag of the young man in the scanning machine. When the Customs department suspected this, they took out the mixer machine from the trolley bag and opened it. A black colored metal appeared round his motor. When the metal was cut with an electric cutter, gold came out of it.

Fourth case of smuggling in a week

A week ago, the Customs Department caught three cases of gold smuggling in Jaipur Airport on a single day. Today this is the fourth case in the week. On 31 March, one kg of 130 grams of gold was caught by the department in three different cases, which was worth 52 lakh rupees.

Only people living abroad can bring gold for a year

If a male traveler has been living abroad for 1 year, then he can bring 50 thousand gold jewelery with him when he comes to India. Whereas, one year a female traveler living abroad can bring gold jewelery up to 1 lakh. They will not have to pay any custom duty on this. That is, it will be duty free. On the other hand, if they bring more jewelery than this, then they will have to pay custom duty on it. If gold is brought in addition to the jewelery form, then it will have to pay 10 percent duty.

23 cases in last one year, main accused still out of hold

The custom has caught 23 cases of smuggling so far in the last one year. But till now the main accused in a single case could not be caught. Till now, in all cases, Custom does not consider these accused as professional career. In such a situation, not a single main accused could be caught in the custom so far.

Take the risk to save tax and purity

The biggest reason for gold smuggling is 7.5% import duty saving. Apart from this, the other big reason is the purity of gold. The 24 carat gold price in Dubai is currently 4181 rupees per gram. It takes 7.5% duty to bring gold from Dubai in India. To protect this duty, smugglers bring large quantities of gold here. There is a savings of about 340 rupees on one gram. If a person brings 100 grams of gold from Dubai secretly, then he saves 34 thousand rupees.