Delhi Airport Crocodile: Oh my! Foreigner landed at Delhi Airport with a severed head of a crocodile

Things like gold and foreign currency have been caught at Delhi Airport but the customs officials were surprised to see a foreign national carrying a severed head of a crocodile. This Canadian citizen had disembarked from a plane at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI). The officials suspected that this person had something strange. When he was taken aside and checked, everyone was stunned. It was found that there was a severed head of a crocodile in his luggage.

Crocodile is eaten in Thailand

According to HT's report, the man said that he had neither killed nor hunted any crocodile, but he had bought it from Thailand. Let us tell you that Thailand is a country where people eat crocodiles with great relish. Here, in India, permission is required to travel with such wildlife products, which he could not show.

The airport officials alerted the forest department and the investigation of the crocodile's head began. A team of the Forest and Wildlife Department led by Deputy Range Officer (West) Rajesh Tandon found in the investigation that the head belonged to a crocodile. A forest official said that the Customs Department has been asked to take action under the Wildlife Protection Act as crocodiles come under protected species. Further lab tests will reveal the species of crocodile, whose severed head the Canadian landed in Delhi with. At present, the Forest Department has the severed head of the crocodile.

A similar case came to light last year as well. Then in August, a 32-year-old Canadian woman was caught with the horns of an unknown animal. She claimed that she had found it while trekking in Ladakh and decided to take it home.

Gold was hidden in the button

Gold worth Rs 29 lakh has been recovered from an Indian passenger at Delhi International Airport. The passenger had hidden the gold in the buttons of his clothes. The accused had arrived from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Monday, after which he was stopped. Officials marked the passenger at the 'Green Channel' exit through 'spot profiling' technique. On checking his luggage, suspicious pictures were found. The passenger had passed through the DFMD (door frame metal detector) without making any noise, but on checking his luggage properly, 201 silver plated rings were recovered. These rings looked like gold and were cleverly hidden as metal buttons of clothes. The department said that the rings hidden in the form of metal contain 24 carat gold and their total weight is 379 grams, which is worth about Rs 29 lakh.