After the Omicron variant had surfaced, both the Central and State governments have made it mandatory for passengers reaching from at-risk countries to undergo RT-PCR tests and random checks of two percent for the total flight passengers arriving from non-at-risk countries as well.
Acting on inputs, the personnel of the department opened a cardboard box and found in it 994 “Pink Punisher” methylene-dioxy-meth-amphetamine (MDMA) also known as ecstasy pills worth Rs 50 lakh.
The Air Customs officials at Chennai airport intercepted a parcel from Poland that had arrived at the Foreign Post Office on suspicion of containing arthropods (hard-bodies species without a backbone) or invertebrates (cold-blooded species without backbones).
Chennai Air Customs seized 6 kg of gold bars worth Rs 2.90 crores. The gold bars were wrapped with white adhesive tapes and found concealed under one of the seat cushions of the aircraft, coming from Dubai.
The customs department at the Chennai airport seized Gold, iPhones worth Rs 11.13 lakh from a passenger who arrived from Dubai.
Customs Department at Chennai Airport arrested six persons in last two days for attempting to smuggle gold and foreign currency into India.
Security was tightened at the airport in Chennai following a threat call, police said on Saturday.
The Chennai Air Customs seized 4.77 kgs gold worth Rs. 2.41 crores, foreign currency worth Rs. 5.13 lakhs, iPhones, cigarettes and health supplements worth Rs 19.15 lakhs at Chennai International Airport. All of these are valued at about Rs 2.65 cror
Cyclone Nivar: A total of 26 flights have been cancelled due to heavy rains in Chennai. Severe cyclonic storm Nivar is expected to cross the coast between Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on Wednesday night.
On October 19, customs officials at Chennai International Airport seized 635 gms of gold worth Rs. 33.3 lakh from 2 passengers under Customs Act.
The customs department at Chennai International Airport on Saturday recovered 681 grams of gold, worth Rs 29.4 lakhs from two passengers.
An IndiGo spokesperson said, "IndiGo A320 was operating Chennai-Kuwait 6E-1751. After take-off from Chennai, the pilot observed a momentary message of the smoke detector in the aft cargo compartment."
The pilot of the flight received the nod of airport authorities to return after he noticed the glitches. The aircraft then landed safely at the Chennai airport.
The man used the fake ticket to enter the airport to see off his Hong Kong-bound girlfriend in the morning and was nabbed by the CISF personnel who questioned him when he tried to exit, the police said.
A Singapore-bound flight of Scoot airline, which took off from Tiruchirapalli, made an emergency landing at the Chennai airport on Monday following a "cargo smoke warning trigger", the private carrier said.
The flight landed safely. Nobody was injured in the incident and all 170 passengers were safely disembarked, they said.
The A320 aircraft, which landed from Kolkata in the evening, was towed away as there were some issues with the nose steering wheel.
The bus caught fire when it was nearing the arrival point with about 50 passengers on board.
The crew alleged that they were searched after de-boarding on the suspicion that they were swindling cash collected from the sale of food and other items on-board.
The call was made to an airline operating flights between here and Hyderabad, and security measures have been put in place, officials said.
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