<p>The <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/mumbai-customs-seize-4600-smuggled-laptops-23353589" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">customs officials</a> seized 12 newly launched iPhone 16 Pro Max from a group of four passengers at the Indira Gandhi Terminal Airport, said the Customs Department on Thursday.</p>
<p>The incident occurred on October 1, when these four passengers were trying to smuggle these iPhones from Dubai to India.</p>
<p>"Customs at IGI Airport, Delhi seized 12 iPhone 16 Pro Max from a group of four passengers who were trying to smuggle these iPhones from Dubai on October 1," said Customs in an statement.</p>
<p>Further investigation is underway in the matter.</p>
<p>Earlier on October 1, in a different incident, a woman passenger travelling from Honkong to Delhi flight was intercepted by Customs officials at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport with 26 iPhone 16 pro max, the department reported.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/mumbai-customs-dri-foil-bid-to-smuggle-exotic-birds-from-indonesia-23373365" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">customs department</a> at Delhi's IGI Airport arrested the woman passenger for smuggling the devices concealed in a vanity bag, said officials.</p>
<p>The arrest was made on the basis of specific intelligence input received by the Customs Department, according to officials.</p>
<p>"Based on intelligence, Delhi Airport Customs intercepted a lady passenger travelling from Hongkong to Delhi carrying 26 iPhone 16 Pro Max concealed inside her vanity bag (wrapped in tissue paper)," said customs.</p>
<p>Earlier on Monday, a passenger travelling on a Dammam to Delhi flight was intercepted on Monday by Customs officials at IGI Airport for concealing two gold bars inside the battery compartment of his mobile phone.</p>
<p>Acting on intelligence, the Customs department at IGI Airport, Delhi, recovered the two gold bars, weighing approximately 200 grams, hidden inside the traveller's phone.</p>
<p>In a separate operation on September 28, Customs officials at IGI Airport seized 2,739 grams of gold, valued at Rs 1.80 crore, from seven Uzbek passengers, including a juvenile, who were travelling from Almaty.</p>
<p>Six passengers were arrested under the Customs Act, 1962, and the juvenile was apprehended under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.</p>
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