Officials of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai customs arrested two passengers on Saturday, on the basis of a specific input, that they were travelling from Bangkok to Mumbai with gold. The customs officials also arrested a third passenger who had travelled from Delhi to collect the gold.

AIU officials said they have arrested HR Chopra and Karan Kumar and recovered 6 gold bars of 1 kg each, and a cut piece of gold bar with a foreign mark. The whole seized gold weighed 6.109 kg and was worth R1.67-crore. The questioning of the two led AIU to Ajay Kumar, who had come from Delhi to collect the gold.