A cabin crew member of an flight from Dubai was arrested on Sunday by Customs officials on charges of receiving gold from a passenger onboard to smuggle it outside the airport. Customs officials refused to reveal the names of the crew member and the passenger, who too was arrested.

The air intelligence unit of Customs intercepted the cabin crew member on the flight immediately after it landed from Dubai early on Sunday. He was found hiding the gold in paste form on his person. The tip-off came to Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).

During interrogation, the arrested crew member said a passenger on the same flight had handed him the gold, which weighed 1.7 kg and was worth more than 1 crore. The passenger too was arrested.