Two French nationals caught smuggling gold worth over Rs 60 lakh

"We have arrested a couple Mohamed Hassain and his wife Djany Mohamed and recovered 2606 grams of gold worth Rs 60.88 lakhs from them," Customs Commissioner APS Suri told PTI. 

The duo had arrived here from Dubai via Bahrain. 

Customs sleuths recovered a 1 kg gold bar, five gold bars of 100 grams each, two crude gold chain, five crude gold bangles, a necklace, a gold chain and two rings from them.

"The bars were concealed in the ladies hand bag," Suri said adding that sleuths also recovered 10 cartons of cigarettes.