16 Jun 2019  |   06:41am IST

NIA to question man held at Dabolim airport

Team Herald

PANJIM: The National Investigation Agency will interrogate the man who on Thursday was held at Dabolim airport with multiple identity cards and a suspicious video and audio clips.

State police officials said on Saturday that the 30-year-old man was held by the Central Industrial Security Force at Airport, while he was taking photographs and behaving in a suspicious manner.

He was then handed over to Dabolim police who found PAN, Aadhaar and Voter cards in the name of Khurhsid Alam and a driving licence issued in West Bengal in the name of Shaikh Imran, the official said.

“The Intelligence Bureau had interrogated him and will question him again in detail. NIA personnel will also be coming to Goa to probe the accused,” Inspector Ravindra Desai of Dabolim police station said.

Police officials, on condition of anonymity, said the man is being investigated for gold smuggling as 21 used airline boarding passes from places like Goa, Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata, as well as 11 bus tickets of Bangladesh, a SIM card from that country, a train ticket from Kolkata to Jammu and two ATM cards under different names have been found on him.

A senior CISF official had earlier said that the man’s mobile phone had images of gold items and audio clips related to cash transactions.

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