New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Delhi Customs has arrested a passenger arriving from Jeddah after recovering 869.5 grams of 24-carat gold ingeniously concealed inside the tyres of an electric scooter at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport.

The seizure was made on August 6 by the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) at Terminal 1 following intelligence inputs and passenger profiling, Delhi Customs said in a post on X.

The passenger, who travelled from Jeddah to Delhi via Mumbai on IndiGo flight 6E-6133, was intercepted after arriving at the airport.

According to customs officials, the flyer was carrying household goods along with an electric scooter as part of the checked-in baggage. During X-ray screening, officers detected suspicious images in the ...