NEW DELHI: The highest volume of gold has been detected at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in a year since demonetisation.
In all, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which was alerted by the security agencies to keep a watch on passengers with large quantities of precious metal or cash in their hand bags, says it detected 1491.5 kg gold; 572.63 kg silver and Rs 87.2 crore in cash at various airports between November 8, 2016, (when note ban was announced) and November 7, 2017.
The Delhi airport topped the list with a total gold detection of 498.4kg, followed by Mumbai (343kg), Jaipur (203.5kg) and Ahmedabad (142kg).
The maximum cash detection happened between November 8 and December 31, 2016, when the window of depositing the scrapped currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 with banks was open.
As much as Rs 71.5 crore of the Rs 87.2 crore cash detection happened during this window.
The Mumbai airport topped the list of cash detection at Rs 33.3 crore, followed — surprisingly by — Imphal at Rs 16.6 crore. Cash detected at Ahmedabad and Kolkata airports was Rs 7.3 crore, each, and this figure for Delhi was Rs 6.2 crore. Another Northeastern town, Dimapur, figures high in this list at Rs 3.5 crore.
"Acting on a Finmin advisory, CISF had issued directions to all 59 airports under its security cover to keep a close watch on the movement of high volume of cash and gold in hand baggage of passengers and to inform to air intelligence unit of Income Tax for further action," CISF's assistant IG Hemendra Singh said.
In all, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which was alerted by the security agencies to keep a watch on passengers with large quantities of precious metal or cash in their hand bags, says it detected 1491.5 kg gold; 572.63 kg silver and Rs 87.2 crore in cash at various airports between November 8, 2016, (when note ban was announced) and November 7, 2017.
The Delhi airport topped the list with a total gold detection of 498.4kg, followed by Mumbai (343kg), Jaipur (203.5kg) and Ahmedabad (142kg).
The maximum cash detection happened between November 8 and December 31, 2016, when the window of depositing the scrapped currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 with banks was open.
As much as Rs 71.5 crore of the Rs 87.2 crore cash detection happened during this window.
The Mumbai airport topped the list of cash detection at Rs 33.3 crore, followed — surprisingly by — Imphal at Rs 16.6 crore. Cash detected at Ahmedabad and Kolkata airports was Rs 7.3 crore, each, and this figure for Delhi was Rs 6.2 crore. Another Northeastern town, Dimapur, figures high in this list at Rs 3.5 crore.
"Acting on a Finmin advisory, CISF had issued directions to all 59 airports under its security cover to keep a close watch on the movement of high volume of cash and gold in hand baggage of passengers and to inform to air intelligence unit of Income Tax for further action," CISF's assistant IG Hemendra Singh said.
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