Mumbai: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials arrested seven persons, including a BJP office-bearer, for their alleged involvement in a major gold smuggling racket at the city airport and seized over Rs 5 crore of gold dust mixed with wax in the wee hours of Saturday.
The arrested accused were identified as AI Airport Services Ltd employees Rohit Singh, Santosh Pol, and Ajit Acharekar, Samiullah Shah, Bangladeshi national Mohammed Kawsar, and Sri Lankan nationals Mohamed Faleel Kasim and Rifkhan Hameed Lebbe. Acharekar is reportedly associated with the BJP workers’ wing. He had joined the party a few months ago in the