Smugglers strike gold at city airport

With two cases in 2012 to 51 cases in2014, Ahmedabad airport is at number 8 in number of gold smuggling cases across country in 2014

Curbs on the import of gold has been eased, yet there has been an unprecedented jump in cases of gold smuggling at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in the past year.Ahmedabad stood eighth in the number of gold smuggling cases registered at airports across the country in 2014, according to the Anti-Smuggling Unit under the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance.