Indian national held with gold
Customs officials arrested an Indian national with 4 kg gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday afternoon. The arrested Indian citizen was identified as Rawshan Ali, 32, a resident of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state. Contacted, Sohel Rahman, joint commissioner of Dhaka customs house, said the customs officials challenged Rawshan after he came out from a flight of Bangladesh Biman Airlines from Bangkok at around 4pm. He arrived in the airport at around 3:30 pm as a transit passenger and he was scheduled to fly for Kalkata by another flight of the same airlines, he added. Searching the travel bag of the Indian national, the customs officials recovered four gold bars, each weighing around one kg. Sohel Rahman said, We had specific secret information that he will hand over the gold consignment to the designated people in the airport. During preliminary interrogation, Rawshan revealed that he brought several gold consignments here in similar way earlier, said another customs official.
