A Mumbai based president has been arrested by the officers of Pune customs and has seized 1069.86 grams of 24k gold valued at Rs 41.08 lakh from Spice Jet flight no. SG-52 which arrived from Dubai at Pune International airport via smuggling.

Vaishali Patange, Joint Commissioner of Customs, said, "The concealed gold was recovered during the physical verification of the car air compressor machine carried by passenger Nawaz Shamshuddin Pawle of Mumbra, Thane, in his checked-in baggage."