It appeared to be no less than a movie scene for over 160 passengers on board an aircraft when they saw customs officials entering the plane and carrying out an arrest and seizure operation of two alleged gold smugglers.

The officials arrested two men for carrying little over three kilograms of smuggled gold worth nearly Rs one crore on Friday, sources said. The accused, who hail from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, were travelling in a flight from Chandigarh to New Delhi, they said. The customs officials at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here, who got the last-minute input that the duo were carrying smuggled gold, rushed to Terminal 1 which is about a 15-minute drive from Terminal 3 of the international airport, the sources said.