{"id":31170,"date":"2026-08-06T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/kolkata-airport-gold-seizure-jewellery-worth-%e2%82%b91-crore-recovered-rajasthan-man-arrested\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:45:34","slug":"kolkata-airport-gold-seizure-jewellery-worth-%e2%82%b91-crore-recovered-rajasthan-man-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/kolkata-airport-gold-seizure-jewellery-worth-%e2%82%b91-crore-recovered-rajasthan-man-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata Airport Gold Seizure: Jewellery Worth \u20b91 Crore Recovered, Rajasthan Man Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-160942_1786012636.png\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-160942_1786012636.png\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-160942_1786012636.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Bidhannagar Police seized gold, diamonds, and other precious gemstones worth more than \u20b91 crore from Kolkata&#8217;s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport and arrested a Rajasthan resident for allegedly attempting to smuggle the valuables out of the airport premises.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-161037_1786012643.png\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-161037_1786012643.png\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"541\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-161037_1786012643.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><span class=\"e913fbaa d3886593\"><strong>Rajasthan man arrested near airport<\/strong><\/span><strong\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">According to police, the accused, identified as Ram Avtar Sharma, was intercepted near the airport while allegedly transporting the consignment on a scooter after collecting it from a person inside the airport.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><span class=\"e913fbaa d3886593\"><strong>Gold, diamonds, gemstones recovered during raid<\/strong><\/span><strong\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Police sources said the valuables had arrived at the airport through a domestic cargo shipment on Wednesday evening. Acting on specific intelligence, officers from the NSCBI Police Station stopped the scooter before it exited the airport premises.<\/p>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-160926_1786012647.png\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-160926_1786012647.png\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-160926_1786012647.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><span class=\"e913fbaa d3886593\"><strong>Scooter intercepted after intelligence input<\/strong><\/span><strong\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">During the search, police recovered around 400 grams of gold, valued at nearly \u20b960 lakh, along with several hundred grams of silver, besides diamond jewellery, rubies and emeralds. The total market value of the seized valuables is estimated to exceed \u20b91 crore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Investigators suspect the consignment was being transported to Burrabazar, Kolkata&#8217;s major wholesale trading hub.<\/p>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-161022_1786012653.png\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-161022_1786012653.png\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"996\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/06\/screenshot-2026-08-06-161022_1786012653.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><span class=\"e913fbaa d3886593\"><strong>Police suspect organised smuggling network<\/strong><\/span><strong\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">The accused was produced before the Barrackpore Court on Thursday. Police are expected to seek his custody to investigate the larger smuggling network and identify other persons involved in the racket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Officials said the investigation is underway to ascertain the origin of the consignment, its intended recipients, and whether it is linked to an organised interstate smuggling syndicate.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bidhannagar Police seized gold, diamonds, and other precious gemstones worth more than \u20b91 crore from Kolkata&#8217;s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) Airport and arrested a Rajasthan resident for allegedly attempting to smuggle the valuables out of the airport premises. Rajasthan man arrested near airport According to police, the accused, identified as Ram Avtar Sharma,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}