Four people, including a 22-year-old Canadian cricketer, were arrested from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 5.2 kilos of gold worth R 1.7 crore on Saturday. The cricketer’s father admitted to having smuggled in similar quantity of gold earlier, customs officials said. Officials said the cricketer, Mamik Luthra, an all rounder, had played the U-19 World Cup for Canada held in Bangladesh in 2016. On checking manually, we found five gold bars weighing one kg each and a cut piece of 218 grams of gold,” said a customs officer. Anubha Sinha, joint commissioner customs, IGI airport, said all four passengers were arrested and the recovered gold seized.

Source: Hindustan Times June 12, 2019 01:00 UTC