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A flight attendant who was arrested the other day at the Calicut International Airport for gold smuggling told his interrogators that he has done so six times earlier.
The DRI officials recovered 218 heroin packets of one kilogram each during the search operation carried out on the seized boats which were brought to the Coast Guard headquarters in Kochi.
Abdusamad and his wife Safna were arrested with over 7 kg of gold at the Karipur Airport.
The duo, who tried to smuggle 2.23 kg of gold through Cochin International Airport, were absconding.
Shamsuddeen Sait (56) was arrested by a special team in Madurai on Tuesday evening.
The permission has been granted for sending notices to the former consul general and attaché. The issue concerns 17,000 kg dates that were brought from the UAE to the consulate.
While Sreesh has been recognised for his excellence in intelligence gathering, Vivek thwarted multiple narcotic and gold smuggling activities, including the 2020 Thiruvananthapuram gold smuggling case.
It was also informed that a show cause notice was issued to him in the dollar smuggling case and the chargesheet in the case would be filed soon.
An investigation conducted by the Bengaluru customs has shed light into the incident.
Issuing a statement after media speculation that his watch worth Rs 5 crore was allegedly seized, Pandya said that, "wrong perceptions have been floating around on social media regarding my declaration to Customs at Mumbai Airport."