Indian National and Airport Cleaner Arrested in Separate Incidents Involving Smuggled Gold at Tribhuvan International Airport

Kathmandu. An Indian national and a sanitation worker (sweeper) employed at the airport have been arrested for possessing illegal gold at Tribhuvan International Airport. The Airport Security Office took them into custody in connection with two separate incidents.On Wednesday morning around 10:00 AM, 49-year-old Indian national Abu Barkat Kudrate Khuda Kazi, who arrived in Kathmandu from Dubai via a Flydubai flight, was detained by police on suspicion. During the check, as there was suspicion that he had concealed gold inside his rectum, he was made to defecate in the toilet. During this process, a yellowish, cylindrical, semi-solid metal lump weighing...