Mumbai Airport Customs Arrests Canadian Citizen, Airline Worker in Smuggling Cases Worth ₹3 Crore

Mumbai Airport Customs officials arrested a Canadian citizen of Indian origin and an airline staff member in two separate smuggling cases on Wednesday. In the first case, passenger Sukhpal Singh (34) was intercepted after arriving from Toronto with diamond-studded jewellery valued at ₹1.21 crore that he failed to declare at the Customs red channel. Singh admitted to possessing and not declaring the goods.

In the second case, airline employee S.S. Gurav (48) was apprehended after security staff found him with 24KT gold dust in wax form weighing 1,350 grams, provisionally valued at ₹1.75 crore. The gold was recovered from an aircraft lavatory and concealed in a cleaning tray. Combined, both seizures amount to nearly ₹3 crore.