Gold rush: Punjab grapples with soaring smuggling operations from Gulf

Joginder Singh, Joint Commissioner, Customs, infomred on Tuesday that the Customs department had seized a total of gold worth Rs 784.49 lakh during the financial year 2022-23 whereas from April onward in the current financial year, they had already seized gold worth Rs 745.55 lakh which indicates at a significant and concerning rise in gold smuggling activities.