|
Mangaluru: The Customs officers at Mangaluru International Airport seized foreign currency totalling to 12,500 Saudi Arabian Riyals, 7,755 UAE Dirhams, 50 Kuwait Dinars and 400 Qatar Riyals equivalent to Rs 3,75,023 (Rupees Three Lakhs Seventy Five Thousand Twenty Three only), from the passenger Mohammed Ali Pallikunhi, aged about 27 years, hailing from Mogralputhur, Kasaragod Dt, Kerala, at the time of his departure from Mangaluru International Airport in the evening of May 24 by Jet Airways flight No 9W532 to Dubai.
The said passenger attempted to smuggle the foreign currency out of India without valid money exchange documents.
Further investigation is under progress.
Disclaimer: Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. canaranews.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.
Please note that under 66A of the IT Act, sending offensive or menacing messages through electronic communication service and sending false messages to cheat, mislead or deceive people or to cause annoyance to them is punishable. It is obligatory on CANARANEWS to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.
Hence, sending offensive comments using canaranews will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will canaranews.com be held responsible.